search remote file for string

[matbennett]

Sure that this is straightforward, but it has me stumped :/

I'm trying to add a function to an old project that reads a remote file to check for the existance of a string.

I was planning to do with something like this...

if (strpos (file_get_contents($remoteUrl), $stringToCheck)){
   echo 'Yeah... found it';
}

Problem is that it seems this old project is on an equally old server, running PHP version 4.1.2, which doesn't support file_get_contents

Has anyone got a suggestion of an alternative method?

Thanks in advance.

[matbennett]

Not to worry. Got there in the end.