Save a webpage

fatoaf

Hi,

I am looking for a way of saving how a webpage looks at a particular time via a php script. So far i have managed to save the html file of a webpage on a particular url into a text file on my server. Can i save the complete webpage including images so that the page could be viewed offline at a later date on my server? I need to do this with code that i cant build myself not a standalone piece of software.
Is there a way of saving the webpage into a pdf via pdflib? (this seems very complicated from what i can see!!!) or is there an easier way that already exists?

Thanks for your time,

Oaf

cahva

I'm too tired to write you a script right now, but I quess you could use output control to save the page in html. Look up the ob_xxx functions. Use ob_get_contents()-function and save the file to some directory on your server with the use of PHP's file functions.

Oh, just came to my mind... You can use just fopen('http://yoururl/yourpage.php') and then save that variable somewhere to your server. Very simple 🙂 I'm too tired right now :o

fatoaf

thanks for your swift reply, i will take a look now!

Oaf

fatoaf

been filddling around with the suggested functions for quite a while now and i don't seem to be getting anywhere.
anyone got any ideas of an example that i could look at to start me on my way???

Thanks,

Oaf

fatoaf

anyone got any more ideas for this? i have been trying to save to disk as a pdf and cant get anywhere with it. i am on the windows platform btw. i have not problems saving the html file its just saving the urla as a complete webpage that is the problem.

Thanks,

Oaf

vfwood

this may or may not work, but wget is a program which will grab a webpage and follow the links to grab the images. you would have to do an exec() or system() to call it though.

this is how id do it anyway =/

hope this helps, (dont blame me if it doesnt :-) )

vince

ab4net

i think u can get it as you been advices ..!
fied a variable with thte page code:

$page=fopen('http://yourdomain/page.php',r);

and then store the variable: $page in a text page..

wish it works (Not for pictures)

fatoaf

yeah this works fine for saving the html code of the page.
i just want to know how to save the webpage as a complete page. then the user can see how the page was at that particular time.
i have tried using wget but i cant get it to work, could you give a practical example? (i am using php in windows)

Thanks,

Oaf

statrat

I use a free "Cron for Windows" that runs wget at specified intervals every 3 hours from my home winXP system. i use wget to automatically run a script on my host's linux server since my host won't set up a cron job for me, but it could just as easily get a site or page.
http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm

this site helped me with wget:
http://space.tin.it/computer/hherold/

"getfile <url> will (try to) download a single file in the current directory.
getfilelong ditto, but will place it in some subdirectories named like the host and the url path the file was downloaded from.
getpage will get a whole page (if the url you gave it is a page opposed to, for example, a image or other file) with all the referenced inline items (usually images) needed to display that page, and will (if necessary) change the internal links in order to make it work if viewed locally. If the page is changed in order to accomplish this it will keep a backup copy of the original file.
getlinks will download a page and every page or file referenced directly.
getlinks2 ditto, plus another level of referenced pages or files.
gettree will download everything from the url(s) you gave it and further in the same directory tree.
getonhost will download everything located on the same host.
getzips will get a page and every zip/gif/jpg/page referenced directly.
getmovie will get a page and animations referenced directly.
"

let me know if you want help setting it up.

ab4net

Man,
when i told you my up placed script, i knew that it'll take the page HTML code, not the source, becaus the fopen with the param r means open this file for read, then the server will execute the page, and produce the HTML of it, and then ur script gonna have it to be writen on any other place, so u can use then :
fputs() function to load the HTML produced to a specified HTML page, and i think no need to have the images loaded also, because even when the page will be Executed VIA server, it needs to load the images from server, as well hapen with the new produced HTML page.

dont forget to set the proper permissions for the HTML page u wanna write in ..

good luck ..