Getting info from a website.

[Michael]

I have been doing PHP for over a year now but when I came round to
writing a script I discovered that there was a reasonably sizeable gap
in my knowledge that I didn't even know where to start finding out
about. Anyway this is a reasonably nooby question:

If I have a script on http://url-a.com/script.php and I want to get
some dynamic information of my friend's site at
http://url-b.com/info.php , How can I get it? I need to use get
variables in getting it and it must also be server side.

Many Thanks,
Michael.

[Andy Jeffries]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:22:03 -0800, Michael wrote:

I have been doing PHP for over a year now but when I came round to writing
a script I discovered that there was a reasonably sizeable gap in my
knowledge that I didn't even know where to start finding out about. Anyway
this is a reasonably nooby question:

If I have a script on http://url-a.com/script.php and I want to get some
dynamic information of my friend's site at http://url-b.com/info.php , How
can I get it? I need to use get variables in getting it and it must also
be server side.

You may be able to use fopen (depending on your hosts configuration) to
open remove sites, but an arguably better way is to use the curl_*
functions (start looking in the man page for curl_init).

You can pass in GET parameters to it either way by using the normal
"http://url-b.com/info.php?bar=1&foo=abc" format in either call.

Cheers,
Andy
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[Geoff Berrow]

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Michael contained the following:

If I have a script on http://url-a.com/script.php and I want to get
some dynamic information of my friend's site at
http://url-b.com/info.php , How can I get it? I need to use get
variables in getting it and it must also be server side.

Preg_match() ?

The manual contains the following example

preg_match("/<title>(.*)<\/title>/i", $html_content, $match);

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[TheTeapot]

Did you want to get the entire output of the website, or do you have
that already and need to get some information within a html tag?

Curl is definetly the best way to go for the first one, and Geoff's
example is probably the best for the second one (although I haven't
played with regular expressions yet)