Get HTML source in PHP

Hi all,

I want to get the source code of a page in PHP. There is a page, lets say google.com - I want to get the output HTML source and for PHP to read it, so I can find a string of code in the source. How do I do this?

I am using cURL to get the page and I can display the page... but I don't know how to get the source code.

Please help! Thanks.

 

I'm not familiar with cURL, but you can do something like this in file_get_contents:

<?php
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="lol.txt"'); // 'lol.txt' contains html source
echo file_get_contents("http://google.com/");
?>

PHP:

 

$code = file_get_contents('http://google.com');

PHP:

And then you'd just have to do a preg_match() on $code.

 

$file = fopen("file.txt", "w");

$ch = curl_init("http://site.com/page.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $file);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

fclose($file);

PHP:

 

<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://location.us"); // Start cURL session
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // No output to client, allows storing content in a string instead
$resource = curl_exec($ch); // Execure cURL session and store contents as a variable
curl_close($ch); // Close cURL session
echo $resource; // Send contents to user
preg_match("!Google!",$resource,$match); // Use contents in a regex and so on
?>

PHP:

 

Hi,

I can do that already - I can already get the code and display it. However, I want the HTML source - for example, I can get "Hello my name is bob!" from the page, but I want to get the HTML code: <strong>Hello my name is bob!</strong> - do you see?

 

Something like this?

echo '<textarea rows="20" cols="70">';
echo $result;
echo '</textarea>';

PHP:

 

Hey,

I sorted it now - I had tried preg_match to get something but it wouldn't work because the code coming back was not what I expected. All good now though, my mistake! Thanks though that would've worked.

 

Okay then!

 

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