file_get_contents

PHPNEWTOIT

I am using the following script to get content from an https:// server at a remote location to bring within my own sites headers and footers.

I want to be able to add a header and footer to the contents from my server but when I do this ot tries to look for the graphics on my server rather than the remote location. The script works perfectly when executed on its on or you php inlcude text below the script.

Any ideas how I can get this script to work and siplay the contents with the graphics but then look from within my site for the remaining content.

Thanks
PHPNEWTOIT

<?php 
$uri = 'https://www.site.co.uk; 
$html = file_get_contents($uri); 
if($html !== FALSE) 
{ 
   $html = preg_replace('/<head>/i', "<head>\n<base href='$uri'>\n", $html); 
   echo $html; 
} 
else 
{ 
   // error message here... 
} 
?>

bradgrafelman

I'm confused. You have a <base> element that points to the remote site, so all images and whatnot should be loading from the remote site.

Now, the only time that the <base> element will NOT direct images/stylesheets/etc. to the specified URI is if the HTML element in question has a full URI specified for it's source. Example:

<base href="http://yahoo.com">
<img src="/path/to/mypic.jpg">
<!-- Path = http://yahoo.com/path/to/mypic.jpg -->

<img src="http://mysite.com/path/to/pic2.jpg">
<!-- Path = http://mysite.com/path/to/pic2.jpg -->

So while I don't understand your question, maybe that explains how to override the <base> element and specify where a particular image/whatever should come from?

MarkR

There are many other reasons it might not work:

Javascript may be using window.location to programmatically determine the location of other resources
There may already be a BASE element in the page
There might not be a head element in the page (even though, technically, there SHOULD be one)
Because you're assuming that the page has a normal head element, a malicious page creator could easily defeat the above code by putting in a commented-out head element before the genuine one (or indeed, writing <head> inside an attribute of some other element)
You're also assuming that the head element has no attributes - HTML does not define any that specifically apply to head, but it is not illegal for an author to apply (for instance) an "id" attribute.

The bottom line:

Using regular expressions to parse HTML is impossible in the general case.

Mark

PHPNEWTOIT

The script works fine on its own and if I use a include 'example.txt' below the file_get_contents it works fine still. If i add even echo 'hello world' above the script the images and colours etc seem to go.

Does this give you more information to help with a solution or is there not a solution to this one as I cant use Iframe as they are not allowed but I want to include the content between my headers and footers.

Thanks

PHPNEWTOIT

Hi Guys

Is this is a no go then no solution around this as I have played for hours different things and cant come up with a solution as yet and wondered if the combined brains on here could.

Basically cant use Iframe, getting site to put within my headers and footer from a https:// location using get_contents stops working as soon as I add my header. It seems to remove the css from the get_contents as well as the images. If I add anything below the content it works but really need to add above it as well.

Thanks Guys

PHPNEWTOIT

MarkR

You can't expect sticking arbitrary HTML together to just work - HTML has a well defined structure which means that things need to appear in the right order.

Therefore simply slapping your own header on top of someone else's HTML is guaranteed to fail.

Likewise, adding a footer should fail for the same reason.

The only way of actually doing this is to parse the HTML and insert your content at appropriate places; this is extremely nontrivial.

You may wish to ask the owner of the site for a machine readable feed instead. Syndicating someone else's content without their permission and/or cooperating is guaranteed to lead to disaster, both from a technical and legal standpoint.

Mark