Parsing Another Page To Your Site

Anon

Hi,
I'd like to know how to "pull" dynamically generated page on other site to my site and parse it so I can extract some information there. I've tried using fsockopen function, but it didn't seem to work.
What else can I do ?

Thanks a lot

babak

Look at file();
http://php.net/file
//babak

Anon

Hi,

To get the page from othersite just put the url with the querystring of the page u wanna "pull" into ur site into the file() function.

I am giving an example of how to use the concept :

$url = "http://www.phpbuilder.com";

//file function will return an array of the entire "HTML" code returned by the url u specified, the reason been, the web server will return the "HTML" source after this function will call, this request will be handled just as another browser request by the web server, so no need of fsockopen()

$arr_url = file($url, "r");

//check if file() function returned an array as intended or not

if(!$arr_url):
echo "Unable to open file to READ !".$url;
exit();
endif;

//join the arra returned by the file function with "" (empty string) as a seperator to generate the exact "HTML" source

$str_source = join("", $arr_url);

So now $str_source is the entire content of the file u wanted to use.

Hoping that this would have came handy in ur problem.

Anon

Thanks for your help, but does that technique worked on dynamically generated page such as page returned by PHP ? I've tried, but it didn't seem to work well.

Thanks for your attention

Anon

If you can link to it statically like you can with this url, you should be able to use it in the way Dheeraj said.

$url="http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=108977&thread=108973";

Anon

Hi Again !!

The Technique that i wrote earlier is bound to work with dynamically generated pages, the same way as it will work with static pages, as i am using this techinque, if there is some specific problem, then feel free to contact me !!

Anon

Thanks, everybody !!! I'll try it out. Once more, thanks a lot !!!

Habibi

Anon

OK, I have tried it, and it worked !! Thanks to you.