[Resolved] saving http request output to a text file?

knashash

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how to save the out for an http request to a text file?

Just a simple http request to another server..not mine. I want to take the output the that browser sees and store it in a text file.

Thanks in advance......

Installer

Like this?

$fp = fopen($file, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $output);
fclose($fp);

knashash

Whats the $output variable you have there? I mean I am langin on a non-php page......maybe this isnt a php thing...maybe I should try and do this in Linux or something?

subhuman

are you referring to the output of a PHP file be thrown to a text file?

thorpe

linux is not a programming language. why not look up [man]fwrite[/man] in the manual? should help you.

knashash

ok...what I was requesting was trying to trigger an http request.....for example www.cnn.com from my page.....however I want to capture the output of the cnn page to a text file and then parse the code and do things with it....does that make sense?

Anyhow the reason I was doing this was because I was working with an XML file and had no idea how to retrieve the results...however after some digging I found my solution at this tutorial here:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-xml-parsing-rss-1-0/3

But I still dont know how you would get the output from a page like cnn into a text file. The reason I was thinking Linux is because it has commands like wget that might do that. So I guess I will close this case as resolved. Thanks for the responses

bradgrafelman

Or, do this:

$data = file_get_contents('http://www.cnn.com');

$fp = fopen('path/to/file.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $data);
fclose($fp);

knashash

Okay...cool...yeah thats what I was looking for...thanks...RESOLVED