connect to website

dfj225

What code would I use to connect to a website from PHP to do something like grab the text and process it? (you can just give the part for connecting to the site, I don't need the processing the text part)

Thanks!

erikwebb

What do you mean by "connect to a website"? Do you mean connecting to a database, or simply reviewing information submitted by a user?

dfj225

Say there was an address: http://www.domain.com/page.html I want to have my script connect to this page. Kind of like connecting to a database, but only to a web page.

erikwebb

I hate to sound mean, but wtf are you talking about?

dfj225

to show i'm not crazy i found this code that is pretty much what I want:

<?
//
// A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site
//

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.randomsite.com//cgi-bin/main/quicklinks/display.pl");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "LinkNum=3530");

curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

but I don't have the curl libs compiled in php and I'm on windows so I don't think i can...any suggestions?

jc94062

fopen() can open up webpages and files.

erikwebb

Okay, now that I know what you're talking about I'm still a little clueless. I understand your problem, but I honestly have no idea what to do.

Weedpacket

Like jc94062 Do you have any idea how hard that is to type when you can't see it? says. See also the manual entry on fsockopen() for an example on using that function for http communication.

dfj225

thanks for the help guys. I think I have all that I need.

jc94062

The jc94062 came from an old school username (94 as in 1994).

"James" is already taken pretty much everywhere so I started to use jc94062 years back, kinda stuck.

Benjamin_Roth

Moreover your nick nearly gets along with the number of your current posts. I mean if you subtract the 9 and the 0 in between. SCNR

Benjamin

mrJazz

Another way of getting the html text from a website would be to use the function file()....

$arrContent = file("http://blah.com");

$siteContent = join(' ',$arrContent);