PHP gurus - help needed here

[who]

I'm trying to find the function that will help me extract the HTML from a page located in another frame (on different domain):

In PERL it would be something like:

get('http://www.site.com/this.htm');

What's something equivalent to this in PHP?

[Varius]

You can use the function fopen, or you could also call the page (esp. if you need to post variables to it) by using the curl functions

[who]

You can use the function fopen, or you could also call the page (esp. if you need to post variables to it) by using the curl functions

OK, thanks. I'll look into that. big help

[Varius]

OK, thanks. I'll look into that. big help

You should be able to find both and their format easily on php.net btw

[VideoJ]

See also file - http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php and file_get_contents http://es.php.net/manual/en/function...t-contents.php

[who]

Hmm, I thought I had it, but this doesn't work. If someone knows what would make this work, please let me know.

<?

$key = "this text";
$fc=file("http://www.site.com/page.htm");
$f=fopen("test.html","w");
foreach($fc as $line)
{
   if (!strstr($line,$key))
	 str_replace('$key','replaced text',$line);
           fputs($f,$line); 
		echo $line;
}
fclose($f);

?>

[who]

C'mon pimps, there's gotta be some real webmasters here?

[Repetitive Monkey]

<?
$url="http://www.the-url.com/";
$parsed=parse_url($url);
$socket=@fsockopen($parsed[host],80,&$errno,&$errstr,10);
if($socket){
@socket_set_timeout($socket,10);
fputs($socket,"GET ".$url." HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: ".$parsed[host]."\r\nReferer: http://www.someone-else.com/\r\nAccept: */*\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n\r\n");
while(!feof($socket)){
$html.=fgets($socket,1024);
}
fclose($socket);
if($html){
$html=explode("\r\n\r\n",$html);
unset($html[0]);
$html=implode("\r\n\r\n",$html);
echo $html;
}else{
echo"No HTML was returned.";
}
}else{
echo"Socket couldn't be opened.";
}
?>

[who]

Thanks Repetitive Monkey. It should help. My next step is trying to replace a certain word with another certain word, and save that html to a file.

[Repetitive Monkey]

Thanks Repetitive Monkey. It should help. My next step is trying to replace a certain word with another certain word, and save that html to a file.

Replace "echo $html;" in my previous code with the following code:

$html=str_replace("word","newword",$html);
$save=@fopen("somefile.txt",w);
if($save){
if(@fputs($save,$html)){
echo"HTML saved to somefile.txt";
}else{
echo"HTML couldn't be saved to somefile.txt";
}
@fclose($save);
}else{
echo"A writable connection with somefile.txt couldn't be established.";
}

[who]

Replace "echo $html;" in my previous code with the following code:

$html=str_replace("word","newword",$html);
$save=@fopen("somefile.txt",w);
if($save){
if(@fputs($save,$html)){
echo"HTML saved to somefile.txt";
}else{
echo"HTML couldn't be saved to somefile.txt";
}
@fclose($save);
}else{
echo"A writable connection with somefile.txt couldn't be established.";
}

Thank you very much. I hope you didn't write that just for me, or that if you did, it only took you a few seconds

Thank you again for the help. Proved to me that GFY isn't all bad...

[Repetitive Monkey]

Thank you very much. I hope you didn't write that just for me, or that if you did, it only took you a few seconds

Thank you again for the help. Proved to me that GFY isn't all bad...

I did, but it was quick, yes.

The tabs formatting the code were swallowed by the GFY monster, so if you want it to look neat I can send you the txtfile through e-mail.

[Repetitive Monkey]

Nevermind, the code function delivers the tabs.

<?
$url="http://www.the-url.com/";
$parsed=parse_url($url);
$socket=@fsockopen($parsed[host],80,&$errno,&$errstr,10);
if($socket){
@socket_set_timeout($socket,10);
fputs($socket,"GET ".$url." HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: ".$parsed[host]."\r\nReferer: http://www.someone-else.com/\r\nAccept: */*\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n\r\n");
	while(!feof($socket)){
	$html.=fgets($socket,1024);
	}
fclose($socket);
	if($html){
	$html=explode("\r\n\r\n",$html);
	unset($html[0]);
	$html=implode("\r\n\r\n",$html);
	$html=str_replace("word","newword",$html);
	$save=@fopen("somefile.txt",w);
		if($save){
			if(@fputs($save,$html)){
			echo"HTML saved to somefile.txt";
			}else{
			echo"HTML couldn't be saved to somefile.txt";
			}
		@fclose($save);
		}else{
		echo"A writable connection with somefile.txt couldn't be established.";
		}
	}else{
	echo"No HTML was returned.";
	}
}else{
echo"Socket couldn't be opened.";
}
?>

[who]

Thanks again, and it works beautifully!

[xfalmp]

A smaller version.

<?
$url = "http://www.google.com";
$file = "google.htm";
$string = "href="; // search for
$newstring = "target='_blank' href="; // replace with

$html = file_get_contents($url);
$html = str_replace($string,$newstring,$html);
file_put_contents($file,$html);
?>

[who]

A smaller version.

<?
$url = "http://www.google.com";
$file = "google.htm";
$string = "href="; // search for
$newstring = "target='_blank' href="; // replace with

$html = file_get_contents($url);
$html = str_replace($string,$newstring,$html);
file_put_contents($file,$html);
?>

Nice. This is what I was trying to come up with, but RM's version has some nice annonymity thrown in, and looks safe, and is just bloody amazing to read (for a php nub like me).

[xfalmp]

Hey, to each his own.. I don't see why use sockets though.

Anyway, just showing you there's more than one way to do, just like PERL.

[Repetitive Monkey]

Hey, to each his own.. I don't see why use sockets though.

The reason for not using just a string of premade functions is to have more control of what the script is doing, the way it behaves under different conditions, and its output.