php to read an executed page?

codeassasin

I'm trying to create a little search engine and I want to have it read not just html documents (open the file, read, parse), but also the executed output from a .php page.
For example if a page shows the results of phpinfo() I want php to retieve as text not just "phpinfo()" but the actual output.

help!
(I tried the search but couldn't word my query to get a valid answer.)

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TheDefender

I'm not 100% certain, but I believe the [man]CURL[/man] functions are what you are going to want to look into to meet your needs.

codeassasin

Thanks but there's a way to do it without having to add modules. That's the one I'm looking for.
Appreciate the help though.

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Weedpacket

No, just request it the way you would any other page. The server that is serving the page doesn't care if the client requesting it is a browser or some other program (it would be a Very Large security risk if it did).

codeassasin

Sorry WeedPacket, I don't understand your answer.

How do I get one PHP page to "request" another and store the return value as a string or array of strings. A normal request would just send the browser to that page.

thanks

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Weedpacket

How are you planning on doing it for HTML documents?

codeassasin

nope, fopen() and fread() get the source code, not the actual document. as I stated before, if my page was

<?
phpinfo();
?>

I would get that as a string, not the actual generated output.
It's that output that I want so I can index it.

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codeassasin

I feel so stupid.... it's that simple....

<?php
use the URL in the fopen() instead of the file path...duh...
$handle = fopen("http://localhost/phpinfo.php", "r");
$text="";
while (!feof($handle)) {
$text .= fgetss($handle, 4096);

}
fclose($handle);
echo $text;
?>

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