CURL functions to get source code of a url

[Amzul]

hello all

im trying to get the source code of a website,
i mange to do this with curl
snipt:

<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://somesite.com/with/page/url.html");
$fp = fopen("/tmp/site.txt", "w+");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
$hand = fopen("/tmp/site.txt","r");
$lines ="";
while(!feof($hand)){
    $lines .= fgets($hand);
}
$code = trim(substr($lines,strpos($lines,"<a"),strpos($lines,"</a>")));// i want <a></a> tag
$herf =substr($code,10,100);// the numbers are bogus 
//at the end i am returring the tag or inserting it to a db 
fclose($hand);
?>
 

this code is working fine but BUT
i want to know is there a better way... i dont want my server to open and close file every time one of the guys will run the script
is there a way to do it in the server memory to get a response faster?

thanks head

[ronverdonk]

When you mean that different user sessions have to write in SHARED storage, the answer is: not in PHP.

Ronald

[Amzul]

When you mean that different user sessions have to write in SHARED storage, the answer is: not in PHP.

Ronald

thats not what i ment but can you explian with what it can b possible.

in my case i did this: instead of fopen i left it as a string
snipt:

$ch = curl_init("www.somepageurl.com");         
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);            
$file = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$file contain the string that i need (no head) and i can work with it