file_get_contents, how to read html souce?

abocado

Hello,

I've been struggling with the following: How do you read the source code of an html page using php? My interest actually is to read html source of php generated pages (i.e. mypage.php) in order to have a static html version.

I'v tried using what appears in the links below, but without luck. I guess that when reading html files some special considerations are involved.

http://us3.php.net/file_get_contents

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Thanks in advance!

-Y

Deep_Dhyani2

hi
You can use this code for reading html source code. It will work

<?php
$str=file_get_contents("index.html");
echo "<textarea cols=100 rows=20>$str</textarea>";
echo str_replace("\n","<br>",htmlentities($str));
?>

Bye

Deep Dhyani

halojoy

<?php

$str=file_get_contents("index.html");
echo "<textarea cols=100 rows=20>$str</textarea>";
echo str_replace("\n","<br>",htmlentities($str));

?>

This was for a index.html in same folder as your php page.
As said, it will work.

For reading contents (source) of a remote page, at some other website:

<?php
// save this code as page: 'getsource.php'   or something like that


// can of course be a local html in your own same folder, as in above example
// $linktopage = "myown.html";

// But here we read source of startpage at google: 'index.html' 
$linktopage = "http://www.google.com/index.html";

$sourcecode = file_get_contents( $linktopage );
echo $sourcecode;

?>

It is not more difficult than this.
3 lines of php!
To see how they coded that HTML.

halojoy - dont you download source code from his pages, please!