content grabber

osusano

hi there i wanna ask maybe someone know how can i grab a content from the site

i currently using this

$raw_html_array=file("http://website");
$raw_html_string=join('',$raw_html_array);
$raw_string=strip_tags($raw_html_string);
print $raw_string;

this do grab a content but what i want now is that i need to use of username and password...

the site is allowing use to get content from the site but we dnt like to cut & paste it everyday and put it on our site.

what i wanna to do now is there is this site where in u use your email address to login and password then thats the time it will give you the content.

so what do u think should i use?

Natty_Dreadlock

u can use curl (www.php.net/curl) to send more sophisticated http queries (e.g. post username and password, use ssl connections etc.) check out the docu.
or u ask the webmaster of the other site to provide a rss feed or something similar u can parse with php.
hth

rupturedtoad

You can access a password protected url by including the authentication details in the url itself:

[url]http://fred@passwd:www.somesite.org[/url]

Don't know if this works from the file function though

Bijan

Originally posted by rupturedtoad
You can access a password protected url by including the authentication details in the url itself:

[url]http://fred@passwd:www.somesite.org[/url]

Don't know if this works from the file function though

You mean we can use this syntax for the POST method? The username and password are not carried in the query string if the method used is POST.

Natty_Dreadlock

no u can use it for http authentification (401)... the authentification type - usually set up via .htaccess - that asks the user for name/password when he enters the protected page in some kinda dialog.