Alternative to curl and file_get_contents

[teguh123]

Hi,

I wrote this program with curl
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $pageurl );
$html = curl_exec ( $ch );
curl_close($ch);

    echo $html;

This is equivalent with echo file_get_contents($pageurl);

Is there a way to do this with socket command? Anyone knows how to do the equivalent using socket command?

[The-Master]

So you want to output the page source basically but not use curl of file_get_contents.

I don't know why you want alternatives if they work but I always use file() to get the contents of a page.

[teguh123]

Because I like to learn new stuffs.

[laserlight]

One way is to use [man]fopen/man or [man]fsockopen/man with [man]fread/man.