Simple curl tutorial?

[snowman15]

Can anybody direct me or post a simple curl tutorial that goes out on to a webpage and saves the source as a txt file or something.

Anything really, i just need to be able to use sting manipulation to look for certain values.

 

example: using curl to look for stock market price.

[rhodesa]

If you just want the source of a page, you can use any of the file functions, like file_get_contents()

 

but to do it with cURL:

<?php
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $source = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
?>