Reading from another website?

fullingdale · March 5th, 2009, 06:30 AM

On my website, I want to include selected content from another website. The other website is well structured, so I can pinpoint accurately, the selection(s) of HTML code that I will want to use.

Is this possible with PHP?

Some basic example would be greatly appreciated. Doesn't need to be massively in depth, beyond capturing the URL content, as I can sort the string manipulation from there.

anees_muhd · March 6th, 2009, 12:05 AM

Hello,

Fist of all ..
It is not ethical...

But it is possible to get the whole content of other site

PHP Code:


			
$url         = 'http://p2p.wrox.com/beginning-php/73096-reading-another-website.html';

$handle = @fopen($url, "r");
if ($handle) {
    $buffer = "";
    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $buffer.= fgets($handle, 4096);
    
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
echo $buffer;

try this code

Regards
Anees

fullingdale · March 6th, 2009, 03:27 AM

Thank you Anees, will give that a go.

Whether or not it's ethical, I would say depends on what you use, how you use it and what credit you give to the originator. For my purpose, I am using quite precise pieces of data which will be clearly marked with where it comes from and could (if my site works as well as I hope) generate traffic and business for the originator, so can't see anyone grumbling with that.