Grab contents of a webpage

SiMZ

I want to grab the contents of a webpage and write it to a file.
Please help me in this. Its urgent !

ScubaKing22

You mean you want to take all of the HTML code from the page? Just the text? Be more specific.

SiMZ

a portion of HTML code.

bad76

Hi,
just save the page from your browser...

SiMZ

Well I got the solution. It was very simple indeed.

<?PHP

$GrabFile = "<URL>";
$GrabStart = "<Some Value>";
$GrabStop = "<Some Value>";
$fPtr = fopen( $GrabFile, "r" );

while (!feof ($fPtr))
{
$buffer = fgets($fPtr, 4096);
//Do the required parsing here
echo $buffer;
}

fclose ($fPtr);
?>

bijugopinath

Hi ,
I have made a simple module to grab whole/part of html file from server..
<?PHP

function grab_url($url,$start_tag,$end_tag)
{
$strSource="linuxclub.org";
$GrabFile = $url;
$fPtr = fopen( $GrabFile, "r" );
while (!feof ($fPtr))
{
$buffer = fgets($fPtr, 4096);
$strSource.= $buffer;
}
$spos = strpos($strSource, $start_tag);
$epos = strpos($strSource, $end_tag);
$endpos=strlen($strSource) - $spos;
$rest = substr($strSource, $spos, $epos-$spos);
echo $rest;
fclose ($fPtr);
}

grab_url("http://192.168.3.3/ebook/list.html","<B>Distributions matched:</B>","");
?>

HalfaBee

If you want to grab a files as one big string, there is a function for it now in PHP4.3

$bigString = get_file_contents( "file" );

HalfaBee