Get HTML contents of a URL

[Anon]

Hello,

I would like to get the HTML contents of a URL. For example, I call a GetHtmlContentsFromUrl PHP function like that:
$sHtml = GetHtmlContentsFromUrl ("http://www.myurl.com/myfile.html");

So It kind of execute a new instance of my browser, wait for the page to load, and return its contents.

There's no function like that in the HTTP PHP default lib. Do you know where I can get such a lib ? Maybe it already exists in PHP.

Actually I thought about using PHP and JS with somekind of frame to get the HTML from a url. But It's kind of tricky because I have to use ONLOAD, then use JS to get the contents of a frame... Tricky :p

[Anon]

Dont sweat it, try this

$fp = fopen($url,"r");
$contents = fread($fp,filesize($url));
fclose($fp);

[Anon]

filesize() doesn't work with URLs. You're best using file() or file_get_contents() with fopen wrappers switched on.

http://www.php.net/file
http://www.php.net/file_get_contents

file_get_contents() is only in the CVS version at the moment though.