PHP help needed

[dillinger]

i need to somehow load the contents of a URL into a variable
so i can later use string replace to work with the contents of the variable

i tried

<?php
$a = http://www.myurl.com

?>

but this doesn't work

i am guessing there must be come sort of function to request the url contents


can anyone help me out?

[mojoman]

php.net/file_get_contents (if you have url wrappers enabled)

this is basic stuff, spend some time on php.net to help yourself instead of being spoonfed on here - it'll be faster

[dillinger]

Originally Posted by mojoman

php.net/file_get_contents (if you have url wrappers enabled)

this is basic stuff, spend some time on php.net to help yourself instead of being spoonfed on here - it'll be faster

thanks

i do use php.net , it's just hard to find things when you are not a programmer

[alpha_male]

but i do get a little problem. when using this if the page has a link /img/abc.jpg then it copies it as the same instead of site.ext/img/abc.jpg

[mojoman]

Originally Posted by alpha_male

but i do get a little problem. when using this if the page has a link /img/abc.jpg then it copies it as the same instead of site.ext/img/abc.jpg

so...have you thought about using str_replace / preg_replace to prepend the site url to the image location / site links?

or maybe wget would be better suited to your needs?

[alpha_male]

ues i did. but i was thinking of a traffic exchange site (long story why i was not using a ready made script). so basicly i didn't knew what to replace for example if i put to replace /image/ but user's site had /img/ and same goes for links.

[SabrinaDeep]

Hi DIllinger!

Try
----------------------------
$a = "http://www.myurl.com";
----------------------------

variables content needs to be quoted, if text and you need to add a semi-colon at the end of each php instruction ;-)

xoxoxo

Sabrina

[mojoman]

Originally Posted by alpha_male

ues i did. but i was thinking of a traffic exchange site (long story why i was not using a ready made script). so basicly i didn't knew what to replace for example if i put to replace /image/ but user's site had /img/ and same goes for links.

preg_replace sounds like what you need then - it's complicated for newbies though

[alpha_male]

well i dumped that idea and about to put that domain for a adsense based website.

[SabrinaDeep]

uhm i just realised now that you probably meant to store the whole source code of an html filer inside a variable...i didnt have much sleep last night sorry eheheh.


If you want to open an html file, and put all its source content inside a variable, you need to use the file_get_content function like this:


$url = "http://www.example.net/somepage.html";
$input = @file_get_contents($url) or die('Could not access file: $url');


Now, if the file exists, the whole source content of
somepage.html is stored inside the
$input variable


xoxoxo

Sabrina

[kaktusan]

Originally Posted by SabrinaDeep

uhm i just realised now that you probably meant to store the whole source code of an html filer inside a variable...i didnt have much sleep last night sorry eheheh.


If you want to open an html file, and put all its source content inside a variable, you need to use the file_get_content function like this:


$url = "http://www.example.net/somepage.html";
$input = @file_get_contents($url) or die('Could not access file: $url');


Now, if the file exists, the whole source content of
somepage.html is stored inside the
$input variable


xoxoxo

Sabrina

you are getting on the right track

just the die('Could not access file: $url'); won't be working normally, since you have put variable inside single quot symbol

[SabrinaDeep]

yep kaktusan, my mistake :-)

by the way, are you on icq? can i hit you quickly?

[kaktusan]

Originally Posted by SabrinaDeep

yep kaktusan, my mistake :-)

by the way, are you on icq? can i hit you quickly?

np

currently my icq is off. I have some important work to finish..should turn it on in couple of hours.. leave me a message there and i will get back to you