How do I get the source code of a web page?

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Can someone tell me how I can get the source code of a web page?

Newbie to PHP: don't know where to start.

I want a small script that you can call, giving a URL as input.
And then have the code give the whole source code as output on the browser screen.

Thanks.

NogDog

<pre><?php
echo htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents('http://www.charles-reace.com/'));
?></pre>

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NogDog;10878627 wrote:

<pre><?php
echo htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents('http://www.charles-reace.com/'));
?></pre>

wow: that's brilliant!
does exactly what i want.
i do need a small extra though.
within the html code, i need to miss out parts that are delimited by:

<!-- Admin Code Start -->
// I don't want this 
// text to show
<!-- Admin Code End -->

i've taken your code and have tried this:

<?php 
	$rawPageCode = htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents('http://www.charles-reace.com/')); 
	$cleanPageCode = preg_replace("/&lt;!--\s*Admin Code Start\s*--&gt;.*?&lt;!--\s*Admin Code End\s*--&gt;/is", "", $rawPageCode);
	$echo $cleanPageCode;
?>

this throws this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/user/public_html/dirs/myPath/getSource.php on line 4

what am i doing wrong...? 🙁
thanks.

bpat1434

where you have $echo it should be echo (no $).

OM2

bpat1434;10878635 wrote:
where you have $echo it should be echo (no $).

yeeee ha!!
thank u!