Assigning IFRAME page to a variable/string?

[newbiedude]

I'm curious to know if I can assign an IFRAME source to a string/variable.

 

I have a page that has an IFRAME in it

 

    <iframe

        id=\"ListFrame1\"

        name=\"ListFrame1\"

        style=\"width:900px; height:300px; border:1px\"

        src=\"http://www.news.com\">

      </iframe>

 

 

and after the IFRAME is loaded, I want to:

 

    $iframesource = file_get_contents(ListFrame1);

 

 

so I can write a function to parse the $ifreamsource string data and then reload or display another IFRAME pending what was found.

 

Note: I know that you can just do a get contents on the remote location or use CURL, but I want to get this working with an IFRAME for other possibilities later.

 

Can you help?

 

 

[discomatt]

Yes, using either javascript, or file_get_contents(). I don't know how an i frame changes the method of grabbing the source of an external file