Is it possible to get a website's source code using PHP

[kpetsche20]

Is it possible to get a website's source code using PHP or javascript?

[DarkWater]

The outputted source code for the HTML page?  Sure.  Not the PHP source though, as that would be insecure.  You can just use file_get_contents() or cURL.

[kpetsche20]

I mean the source you get when you right click on a website and click view source, it doesn't show the php, but the HTML.

[DarkWater]

Then yes.  Use file_get_contents('http://www.example.com'); or the cURL library.  I'd probably recommend the latter because most web hosts have allow_url_fopen off.

[kpetsche20]

Do you know of any good tutorials?

[DarkWater]

For cURL?  It's so ridiculously simple to use for simple web page queries (there's also advanced parts of it, but you don't even need those for this).  Just look at the PHP manual page for curl_init() and you'll probably have all that you need.

[Guest Xanza]

US GOOGLE! Jeeze. :/

 

<?php

function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
      $ch = curl_init();

      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

      $data = curl_exec($ch);
      curl_close($ch);

      return $data;
}

?>

[The Little Guy]

or file wrappers:

 

$url = "http://somesite.com/page.html";
$handle =fopen($url,"r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($url));

echo htmlentities($contents);

[DarkWater]

...most hosts have allow_url_fopen off.

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