Getting Contents of a Webpage

I'm pretty sure there is a function to do this already but Google was absolutely no help what-so-ever. I just need something that will return a string containing the contents of a webpage (the HTML basically). How would I go about doing this, or does anyone know how what the built-in function is (if there is one)?

 

Wow, I need to wait a bit before I go begging for help. After much searching through the PHP documentation I found the function's name is 'file_get_contents(string url)', in case anyone else is wondering.

 

Are the owners of this content your looking to scrape allowing you to do so?

 

You can also use the curl functions. It supports proxies and HTTPS too.
http://php.net/curl

Thomas

 

snoopy will do it too

 

fopen and fread will do the trick too.

$filename = "url";      // Location of the News Source 
$start = "code where you want to begin";      // Start Grabbing Code 
$stop  = "code where to stop";                 // Stop Grabbing Code 

  // Get contents of the specified URL and writes it into a string 
$fd = fopen( $filename, "r" ); 
$contents = fread( $fd, 50000 ); 
fclose( $fd ); 

  // Isolates desired section. 
if(eregi("$start(.*)$stop", $contents, $printing)) { 
  $substring=$printing[1]; 
  

  // while is added as there are multiple instances of the start en stop string & eregi 
  // searches to include the most that matches, not the next. 
 while(eregi("(.*)$stop", $substring, $printing)) { 
     $substring=$printing[1]; 
    
   };

PHP:

 

Where did I say I was scraping content? Don't assume things about people you don't know.

Thanks everybody else for the helpful responses, green rep well earned