Need code snippet to pull remote pages

[s_shrum]

Just looking for the code snippet that would allow me to pull pages via HTTP....no file open routines (stat fails on remote server calls).

TIA

Sean Shrum

[kristianblom]

try this...

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

and then the $file var would contain the whole thing...

its actually an array.
newline means new field in array

[s_shrum]

In case anybody sees this or wonders, the way to get the remote (or even local) web page text into a string (not as an array) is:

$template = join('', file ('http://www.myserver.com/mypage.shtml');

This returns a single string that you can echo() out to the browser.

The other kewl thing is that this also works for local file calls:

$template = join('', file ('./templates/mypage.shtml');

Sean Shrum

[corporateboy]

hmmmm, so I could load up a weather page with that, then use preg_match (or whatever its called) to find the temperature and forecast and display it on my website with PHP ?

[s_shrum]

Yes.

In fact, that is going to be one of my planned uses (not with weather stuff but other...ahem...stuff). Granted we're getting into an area that may infringe on copyright but yes, what your suggesting can be done with this.

Sean Shrum