View Source of an web page

dihan · #1 (**permalink**) 07-05-04, 05:40 PM

I'm making a php send a web page system and wanted to know how I can get the source to a var so i can put that into mail()

Is this possiable? If not what is the best way?

infinitylimit · #2 (**permalink**) 07-05-04, 07:51 PM

Just send it as an attachment if it is a local file. See www.php.net/mail on how to handle attachements.

dihan · #3 (**permalink**) 07-06-04, 02:40 AM

Yeah I thought about that but I would really like to send the page.

The page is a newsletter constructed from MySql, its a little complicated to to put into a var then to mail() func. I've seen a system where you can send a web page and thought its probably must be a way of getting the source from a page.

Anyone else have any ideas please let me know.

dihan · #4 (**permalink**) 07-06-04, 03:00 AM

You got to love PHP,

just found this snipet that does the trick

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

  $file = file('http://www.yahoo.com'); 

   

  $i = 1; 

  foreach($file as $line) { 

    $line = htmlspecialchars($line); 

    echo("<b>$i</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;". $line ."<br />\n"); 

    $i++; 

  } 

?>

dihan · #5 (**permalink**) 07-06-04, 04:32 AM

ok, sending a html through php works cool. I tried to replace where the html go with $line var but it dont seem to work. Any ideas guys?

PHP Code:


			
<?PHP



//add From: header 

$headers = "From: [email]info@email.com[/email]\n"; 



//specify MIME version 1.0 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 



//unique boundary 

$boundary = uniqid("HTMLDEMO"); 



//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 

$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . 

   "; boundary = $boundary\n\n"; 



//message to people with clients who don't 

//understand MIME 

$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\n\n"; 



//plain text version of message 

$headers .= "--$boundary\n" . 

   "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n" . 

   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n"; 

$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 



//HTML 

$headers .= "--$boundary\n" . 

   "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n" . 

   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";



$file = file('http://www.yahoo.com'); 

  

  foreach($file as $line) 

  { 

  $line = htmlspecialchars($line); 

  $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$line"));

  }     



//send

mail("info@feneo.com", "An HTML Message", "", $headers); 



        

?>

what ya think?

infinitylimit · #6 (**permalink**) 07-06-04, 10:38 AM

Here are some functions I found for sending multipart emails. Always works for me.

PHP Code:


			
?php

/*$to_name = 'Joe Bloggs';

$to_email = 'joe@joesemail.com';

$from_name = 'Your Name';

$from_email = 'you@youremail.com';

$subject = 'mail Subject';

$body_simple = 'Simple content for non-MiME-compliant clients';

$body_plain = 'Plain text content';

$body_html = '<html><head></head><body>HTML content</body></html>';



echo api_email($to_name, $to_email, $from_name, $from_email,

$subject, $body_simple, $body_plain, $body_html);

*/



// MIME email

function api_email($to_name, $to_email, $from_name, $from_email,

$subject, $body_simple, $body_plain, $body_html)

{

    $boundary = api_password(16);

    $headers = "From: \"".$from_name."\" <".$from_email.">\n";

    $headers .= "To: \"".$to_name."\" <".$to_email.">\n";

    $headers .= "Return-Path: <".$from_email.">\n";

    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";

    $headers .= "content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".$boundary."\"\n\n";

    $headers .= $body_simple."\n";

    $headers .= "--".$boundary."\n";

    $headers .= "content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";

    $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";

    $headers .= $body_plain."\n";

    $headers .= "--".$boundary."\n";

    $headers .= "content-type: text/HTML; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";

    $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";

    $headers .= $body_html."\n";

    $headers .= "--".$boundary."--\n";



    mail('', $subject, '', $headers);



}



// Generate random alphanumeric password

function api_password($length = 8)

{

    srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

    $alpha = array('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l',

    'm','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z');

    $options = array('alpha','number');



    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)

    {

        $char = array_rand($options,1);

        if ($options[$char] == 'alpha')

        {

            $random_letter = rand (0,25);

            $password .= $alpha[$random_letter];

        }

        else

        {

            $random_number = rand (0,9);

            $password .= $random_number;

        }

    }

    return $password;

}

dihan · #7 (**permalink**) 07-06-04, 11:28 AM

Hey,

The html email works fine just that I'm trying to do it with html from a selected website. Frinding the source of a website then send that as a multipart email. Have a look at the code i pasted up.. and the other posts, you'll see where I'm getting at..

infinitylimit · #8 (**permalink**) 07-06-04, 12:01 PM

I would do an echo on $headers to see what you are sending is right then work backwards from that.

dihan · #9 (**permalink**) 07-07-04, 05:04 AM

All it is this:

PHP Code:


			
<?PHP



//add From: header 

$headers = "From: [email]email@email.com[/email]\n"; 



//specify MIME version 1.0 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 



//unique boundary 

$boundary = uniqid("HTMLDEMO"); 



//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 

$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . "; boundary = $boundary\n\n"; 



//message to people with clients who don't 

//understand MIME 

$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\n\n"; 



//plain text version of message 

$headers .= "--$boundary\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n"; 



$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 



//HTML 

$headers .= "--$boundary\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";

   

$file = file('http://www.yahoo.com');



foreach($file as $line) 

  { 

    $html .= $line;

  }

  

 

$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$html"));



echo $html;



//send

mail("email@email.com", "An HTML Message", "", $headers); 



        

?>

Have " and ' may cause problems with sending a page. I'm sure there is a way of getting pass that. Well here it is.. Sending a web page system

NeverMind · #10 (**permalink**) 07-07-04, 06:02 AM

how about saving some memory and execution time by changing this:

PHP Code:


			
$file = file('http://www.yahoo.com');



foreach($file as $line)

  {

    $html .= $line;

  }

to this:

PHP Code:


			
$html = file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com');

but you need PHP 4.3.0 or higher to use file_get_contents()