Sockets

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Danago, Jan 30, 2007.

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    Hi. Sockets are one thing im very inexperienced with. Ive never had a need to use them, until now.

    For now, all i need to do is connect to www.example.com and store the page source/html of /index.php into a $variable.

    I tried using fsockopen() to connect to www.example.com through port 80, and then just did something with fgets(). Anyway, whatever i did, it was wrong, and didnt work. Soooo...anyone able to guide me in the right direction?

    Thanks in advance for the help :)

    Dan.
     
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  2. mad4

    mad4 Peon

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    http://de2.php.net/file_get_contents
    $theurl="http://www.site.com/";
$filestring=file_get_contents("$theurl") ;
    PHP:
    Your host might have disabled it though. Check with them if it fails.
     
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  3. Dan Nilsson

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    I would suggest cURL, if your host supports it.

    http://se.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

    From the comments on above page:
    
<?php
$url="http://anything";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$content = curl_exec ($ch); # This returns HTML
curl_close ($ch); 
?>
    PHP:
     
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