Get URL in PHP

[sgarstin]

Does anyone know of a PHP command which will allow you to call a web page
and return it's output as a string ? There is a great component ASPHTTP
which does this in IIS, it detects whether the page exists or not, allows
you to post data to the page, lets you set the number of attempts,
timeouts etc.. and finally returns you the output from the page as a
string which you can display (response.write), analyse, change etc..

Is there anything that does this in PHP ?

regards

Simon Garstin

[mega_hurtz]

yeah, you can use the fsockopen() function to snatch up a page. it returns false if the url doesn't exist or an error occurs. after using the function you can then use the pointer it returns to make a page GET request by using fputs(). after that use a good 'ol while !feof loop to snatch up the data in an array.

voila...yahoo in a box.

(google is a nice target for me)

[Anon]

Put the following into your PHP code and read the results:

<?
$remote = file("http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php");
echo implode($remote, '');
?>

HTTP POST requires a socket-level operation. There are examples in the various code snippet libraries, including the library at this site.