extracting data from web code

jagsdj

hello

i'm on win2k/IIS machine...

I've written a piece of code that's supposed to output a webpage to a variable '$buffer'...but, it dosen't seem to be working...

$fp = fsockopen($proxy, &$errno, &$errstr);
if($fp){
fputs($fp,"GET http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ HTTP/1.0\n\n");
while (!feof($fp)){
$buffer = fread($fp,50000);
}
fclose($fp);
}

any and all help is greatly appreciated...i've been racking my head for two days...

please help...
jag

kevinsequeira

<?php
$fp = @fopen("http://www.defenselink.mil/news/","r");
if ($fp){
while (!feof($fp)){
$buffer = fread($fp,50000);
echo $buffer." ";
}
fclose($fp);
}else{
print"The file does not exist";
}

jagsdj

hello all

I've tried the code above and it just does not work. I keep getting the "the file does not exist" error according to the code.

I've been racking this for days now and I would appreciate some more insight if anyone can help.

What i'm tryhing to do is to get a webpage into a $buffer variable and be able to extract some data from that webpage.

thank you

jags

feldon23

That script should work, so the question is, what webpage are you trying to load?

Also, remove the @ in front of the fopen so you get PHP's more descriptive error messages.

jagsdj

thanks for the replys/help...

i'm trying to load "http://www.defenselink.mil/news"
I get the following errors:
Warning: fopen() [<a href='http://www.php.net/function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in g:\websites\pendleton\dodnews_inc.php on line 2 
 
Warning: fopen(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/index.html) [<a href='http://www.php.net/function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to create stream: Bad file descriptor in g:\websites\pendleton\dodnews_inc.php on line 2

thank you again!

ajmoore

The problem is the page you're trying to access...you're trying to access it as http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ which is actually a directory...fopen will open a file...try changing that line to http://www.defenselink.mil/news/index.html and it works...