Content Retrieval

[Anon]

Can somebody tell me somthing about content retrieval? I would like to grab same text from one site and then print it on my site.

How it's done?

Thanx

[ruttiger]

you can handle URLs like files

$fp = fopen('http://yahoo.com', 'r');

the problem is when you get a timeout, and php doesn't handle that well - i'd recommend writing a perl script with a timeout thrown after a few seconds, and have php ask the perl script for the content - i did somethin like this for DNS lookup - later versions of PHP will have good timeouts

hope this helps,

blake

[Anon]

I'm trying to do a little re-engineering of some PHP code, and the pages I'm working with make extensive use of includes. Is there some way I can maybe run php from the command line and pipe the code with all the includes to a text file so that I can see the code that the php compiler is actually compiling?

Thanks! Dan

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Or use socket functions to do a proper http request at the remote side, that times-out pretty well.

[Anon]

check out www.hotscripts.com
Under "Web Fetching" I think you`ll find some interresting code to study.. 🙂

-reef