[RESOLVED] Get source of web site in php

davidmw

I Want to load a page from a different server, and get the source of the page in php.
I tryed
$websource = show_source($page);
but that dosent set the source of the page to the variable $websource, it just outputs it like i did this
echo show_source($page);

Is there any way to set the source to a variable? perhaps a way of using fopen and other stuff but in a way that it allows cross domain?
thanks,
david

bradgrafelman

To clarify - are you trying to get PHP source code? When you say "different server", is $page a URL (i.e. "http://other-website.com/path/to/page.php")?

If so, you can not view PHP source across a web connection - that would allow anyone to steal any PHP script! If you're just trying to get the HTML, you might try a function like [man]file_get_contents/man (assuming that allow_url_fopen is set to On).

Weedpacket

Let's have a look at what the manual says for [man]show_source[/man]

This function is an alias of [man]highlight_file/man.

Okay. Fine.

If the second parameter return is set to TRUE then highlight_file() will return the highlighted code as a string instead of printing it out. If the second parameter is not set to TRUE then highlight_file() will return TRUE on success, FALSE on failure.
Note: The return parameter became available in PHP 4.2.0. Before this time it behaved like the default, which is FALSE

davidmw

ok, thanks for the help.
ok, show source wasent quite what I wanted. I dident realise it changed a bunch of text so source could be displayed on a browser.
Yes, bradgrafelman I may be trying to load a php file, But I expect to get the output from the php, not the source code of the php.
file_get_contents appears to be just what I need, Havent tested it though.
I was looking all over for a function like this. Just as long as it works cross domain, and wont try to load the source of a php file, but will just read the pre-processed data output.

Thanks for you help, Im pretty much set.

bradgrafelman

davidmw wrote:
Thanks for you help, Im pretty much set.

"Pretty much" ? :p

If you find that you're all set, don't forget to mark this thread resolved.

davidmw

yea, I dont think i've ever marked a thread resolved on any forum