[fox1999]

Hi all,

i have a PHP page on my site. I need to read a HTML page of another site and analyze the contents to search some strings.

What functions i have to use? Someone can suggest me the code to do this?

Thanks in advance

Flavio

[Keith]

There are two easy ways to do this. You could use file() or file_get_contents():

PHP Code:

// Reads entire HTML contents into the string

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



// Print source

echo $html;





// OR //





// Splits the HTML contents into an array by line

$html = file('http://www.domain.com/page.html');



// Print source

foreach ($html as $key => $value)

echo $value . "\n"; 

Once you have the code asigned to the variable, there are plenty of regular expressions that can parse the code however you like.

[shadi]

also , you should give fsockopen a try

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

[wheezy360]

As well, you must have allow_url_fopen enabled in your php.ini to open remote files.

[End User]

This would be pretty easy to do with cURL, about a dozen lines or so.