text extraction php script and functions

My project scenario is this: I am downloading the contents of a web page. So my output will be the source code of the specified file.

My next step is to retrieve the text part alone from that. Hence i thought of using stip_tags(). As this will eliminate all the tags and give only the text.

But i have a doubt here. For stripping off the tags, we use variable and then use that variable inside the function.

Now that i wanted to give the ouput of my downloading the source page straight away to the strip-tags and finally get only the extracted text as the output in my window. How should i proceed now? Can you please help me.

And also i have the java code to download the source code of a web page. I need a php code to download the source code.

Thanks.

 

You can take a look at this

http://gr2.php.net/fopen
and 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php

Code (markup):

(about the fopen command)

take care

 

you can use curl to fetch any thing from any where through curl.

 

Alternatively,

to directly get the contents in one go, look at

http://gr2.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

Code (markup):

 

I saw this great script to download pages and get the text:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4782850&postcount=880

it is in perl, but all you really need is to use the "wget" and "lynx --dump" combo ;-)

see php's system command