source code in php

csmaster2005

Hey,
I'm trying to write a program that reads off of a txt file.
The text file is just a list of words. I want the program to put the definitions in another file.
I could do this in c++, but I need a premade program that i can input a word and it returns the defintion.
Like, the msdos command i would use would be filename.exe theWord

And then it prints out the definition on screen, which i can store in a file.
But, I have been unable to find a program like that.
If anyone knows of one, please tell me!

Also,
I know its possible to do the same thing in php. I know quite a bit in php, but the only thing I dont know is how to store what i site returns.

Like, lets say i tell it to go to http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictiona...nary&va=TheWord

How can I harness whatever the definiton is?
I could do it if I knew how I could retrieve the source code of a site...., and i just tell it to search for whatever is after the header part and store that... but i dono

any ideas, suggestions, etc would help!
thx

Skull

this file will show up the source code of a file if u do getfile.php?site=sitehere

<?php
$choice = $_REQUEST['site'];
$getfile = "$choice";
$file = "$getfile";

$fp = fopen($file,"r");

while(!feof($fp))
{
print nl2br(htmlentities(fgets($fp,1024)));
}

fclose($fp);

or you can just put in

<?php

$fp = fopen(Insert Site URL Here,"r");

while(!feof($fp))
{
print nl2br(htmlentities(fgets($fp,1024)));
}

fclose($fp);

not exactely sure what you are looking for but that will show the source code to a site

HTH

csmaster2005

thanks
its helping...
but the problem is how i will know when it starts/ends...

like
lets say i want to search www.m-w.com whenever i search for a word such as.... cup
There are no signs that say "Beginning of definition" and "end", and also all the html will be caught in it..

Hmm
Is it possible to view what the thing displays? (After the file is run on the server)

What i mean is just to search whatever is printed to the person viewing the site.

Maybe I can figure out a solution with that

Thx

superwormy

No, the browser actually recieves all of the HTML, and its just hiding the HTML from you / translating it to layout.

You could try stripping the HTML tags, a regular expression or something like www.php.net/strip_tags

csmaster2005

Heh, I know that the client recieves all the code and the browser just displays layout... im not a noob you know 🙂

yelvington

http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=114

and Google for "dict protocol"

csmaster2005

ill look into that

But, i think i can get it done. The only problem i am having is very strange...

i'm doing

$fp = fopen("http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=superior","r");
$second =0;
while(!feof($fp))
{
$string= nl2br(htmlentities(fgets($fp,1024)));

(using the word superior as an example)

Anyways, if I do a
print $string;

It prints the correct html code (like <html> <head> etc etc)

but if i search it for something with
strstr($string, "<html>");
its false, because its not there. So i was wondering whats wrong with it, so I decided to output it to a file.
When I did, it wasnt giving me the html code, but rather other ways of printing it.

such as -
1 : situated higher up : <a href="dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=upper">UPPER</a> 2 : of higher rank, quality, or importance 3 : courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening) 4 a : greater in quantity or numbers &lt;escaped by superior speed&gt; b : excellent of its kind : <a href="dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=better">BETTER</a> &lt;her superior memory&gt; 5 : being a <a href="dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=superscript">superscript</a> 6 a<

If anyone knows how to stop it from giving it to me that way, and give it to me in real html with the < and > signs instead of & l t; or & r t; , that would help.

HalfaBee

$string= nl2br(htmlentities(fgets($fp,1024)));

This line converts all the <>& and other chars to their html equiv's.

If you want to search for something in the html don't do the coversion.

HalfaBee