Get code from another site

[Steve Ray]

Guys

Not sure if this is possible but I'd appreciate a bit of info please

I would like to (lets just call it) borrow a piece of code from another
website. The website in question is published totally in Microsoft
Frontpage, some very ancient version with totally flat HTML. (Not my site,
not under my control. The owners have no interest in changing the site)

Is it possible in PHP to take a piece of code from this website and
reference it on my page, I was thinking of something along the lines of:

GREP from sitename | referencing this page | inside these markers

I've spoken with my web developers and they tell me I can use Iframe tags or
RSS feeds, both of which I do not believe will allow me to accomplish this

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Good Man]

"Steve Ray" <no******@all.comwrote in
news:f7**********@north.jnrs.ja.net:

Guys

Not sure if this is possible but I'd appreciate a bit of info please

I would like to (lets just call it) borrow a piece of code from
another website. The website in question is published totally in
Microsoft Frontpage, some very ancient version with totally flat HTML.
(Not my site, not under my control. The owners have no interest in
changing the site)

Is it possible in PHP to take a piece of code from this website and
reference it on my page, I was thinking of something along the lines
of:

GREP from sitename | referencing this page | inside these markers

I've spoken with my web developers and they tell me I can use Iframe
tags or RSS feeds, both of which I do not believe will allow me to
accomplish this

fread();
http://ca.php.net/fread
or
file_get_contents();
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function...t-contents.php
Will let you get the content/source of a webpage...

[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <f7**********@north.jnrs.ja.netfrom Steve Ray contained
the following:

>Is it possible in PHP to take a piece of code from this website and
reference it on my page, I was thinking of something along the lines of:

GREP from sitename | referencing this page | inside these markers

LOL, that would have been covered in the follow-up PHP course Steve. Had
there been one. :-(

It's called screen scraping. Experiment with this

$html_content = implode('', file('http://www.example.com'));
$begin="begin marker";
$end="end marker";

preg_match("/$begin(.*)$end/i", $html_content, $match[]);

print_r($match);

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Regards,

Geoff Berrow

[PDannyD]

Steve Ray wrote:

Guys

Not sure if this is possible but I'd appreciate a bit of info please

I would like to (lets just call it) borrow a piece of code from another
website. The website in question is published totally in Microsoft
Frontpage, some very ancient version with totally flat HTML. (Not my site,
not under my control. The owners have no interest in changing the site)

Is it possible in PHP to take a piece of code from this website and
reference it on my page, I was thinking of something along the lines of:

If your server allows it, try fsockopen.

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php