Embeding a page

ts10

Is it possible in either HTML or PHP to embed a link into my current php page as if it were inside the html file? I'm currently using iframe which I really don't like, mainly because I want my page to scroll with the size of the embedded file, not a scrollbar inside my page.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

harlowhair

Ithe file is on the same server, just use an include() statement with a relative path. If you're trying to embed a file from a remote server, use the fopen() method (check the manual), with the full http://etc syntax and pipe the file in that way.

ts10

Thanks for the info - I did check out the manual and incorporated this but it didn't work:

$display = fopen("http://www.google.com/", "r");
echo $display;

Results in this:

Resource id #3

Did I do this right?

Thanks!

planetsim

Im pretty sure fopen works similar to that of include that its only on the server anyway.

You can use fsockopen

secondly for future reference

$fp = fopen("http://www.google.com/", "r");

$contents = fread($fp, filesize("http://www.google.com/"));

echo $contents;

ts10

I get:

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: Stat failed for http://www.google.com/ (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\fi_template\fopen.php on line 22

Weedpacket

You can't get a filesize from a URL.

There's an example of reading a URL on the [man]fread[/man] page that gets around this.

ts10

Hmm, none of this seems to be working for bringing an external website into a page. I would think there has to be a way other than frames to do this.

I have tried all the examples in the manual and none appears to work.

I tried:

<?
$handle = fopen ("http://www.google.com/", "rb");
$contents = "";
do {
    $data = fread($handle, 8192);
    if (strlen($data) == 0) {
        break;
    }
    $contents .= $data;
} while(true);
fclose ($handle);

?>

And it just displayed a blank page (even tried commenting out the fclose.)

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

ts10

Well, just thought of something else. The included page needs to be navigated within that page, so I guess an include type call would not work after all because any link would go outside that page. Does anyone know a better way than frames or iframe to do this? The reason I don't want to use iframe is I don't want a second scrollbar inside my window - different screen resolutions really make iframe look crappy. The embedded URL needs to use the width and scrolling of the main page. Does that make sense?

Thanks!!

Weedpacket

If you're using Apache you could use server-side includes, I guess.

artic

simple nuff

<?php

include(path/to/file);

?>

thats what i did for mine because i didnt want an iframe either so now it pulls up in a table.

ts10

I'm not trying to pull a file - I am needing to pull and entire website, images and all into my PHP page (see above).

harlowhair

If you want the entire site, it'll have to be frames. If you use an include, fopen() or any other method of inserting the actual HTML code into your page, none of the images would work as they will still refer to the orignal (relative) location.

If you REALLY can't design a frameset that'll do, you could always use the file(www.google.com) function to create an array where each element is a line in the source code of the specified URL. You would then need to replace any relative references with absolute ([url]http://[/url] etc.....) paths. And this wouldn't only affect images, you'd also have to consider external stylesheets, external .js files, the list goes on. If you use javascript within your page, this could clash with any on the included page as well.

The best way has to be with frames - why not just turn scrolling off in the frame that will contain the external site?

gregambrose

The script needs print $contents; at the end. It works fine, except as other people have said, relative images will be missed

Originally posted by ts10
Hmm, none of this seems to be working for bringing an external website into a page. I would think there has to be a way other than frames to do this.

I have tried all the examples in the manual and none appears to work.

I tried:
<?
$handle = fopen ("http://www.google.com/", "rb");
$contents = "";
do {
    $data = fread($handle, 8192);
    if (strlen($data) == 0) {
        break;
    }
    $contents .= $data;
} while(true);
fclose ($handle);

?>
And it just displayed a blank page (even tried commenting out the fclose.)

Any other thoughts?

Thanks! [/B]