php pull html from another page

[digitalrjs]

How can I pull html instead of documents using php and display it the same way?

 

thispage.html

contents

 

thispage2.php (pulls content from thispage.html)

echo the contents of thispage.html

 

 

 

[discomatt]

What?

[digitalrjs]

This code can read documents and files.  Do set it up as strings?

 

<?php
$dirpath = "images/news/";
$dl = opendir($dirpath);
//limit characters

while (false !== ($file = readdir($dl)) && $count < 3) {



    
    //admit sub directories
    if (!is_dir("$dirpath/$file")) {
       // $mod = filemtime("$dirpath/$file");
        $files[$file] = $mod;                      // store in array
	//limit characters
	$limit = 6;
	//subtractstring
	$count++;

    }
}
closedir($dl);
//Close Select

asort($files);                                     // sort array by date

foreach ($files as $fn => $mod)
{
    //$dt = date ('d M y H:i:s', $mod);
    echo "
<br>
<table>
<tr>
<td align='left'>
<img src='images/pdf.jpg' alt='adobe pdf' align='left' height='24' hspace='8' vspace='0' width='25'>


<a href='$dirpath/$fn'>".substr($fn,0,$limit). "</a>  
</tr>
</td>
</table>



" ;


}

//echo "<a href='$dirpath/$fn'>$fn</a> ($dt) <br />";
?>    

[discomatt]

I think you need to explain in more detail what you are trying to accomplish.

[digitalrjs]

Here is the page this.html.

 

<table border="0" width="517" height="160" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" valign="top">
<strong>August 19, 2008 <br>
WEST WATEREE CHRONICLE <br>
</strong><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="images/emailupdates/duipdf.pdf" target="_blank" title="GENERAL 2008 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE">TOUGHER PENALTIES COULD REDUCE DUI FATALITIES - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE</a></font></u> 
<p>
<strong>August 8, 2008 <br>
</strong><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="images/emailupdates/joellouriepdf.pdf" target="_blank" title="GENERAL 2008 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE">2008 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE</a></font></u>

</p>
<strong>July 17, 2008</strong><br />
   <em><strong>THE COUNTRY CHRONICLE<br /></strong></em><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="images/emailupdates/pdfonline.pdf" target="_blank" title="GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES STAND AGAINST DARFUR - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE">GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES STAND AGAINST DARFUR - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE</a></font></u><a href="images/emailupdates/nenewscigtax.pdf" target="_blank" title="The Northeast News - Raise the Cigarette Tax"><br />
<br>
<strong>July 17, 2008</strong><br />
   <em><strong>THE COUNTRY CHRONICLE<br /></strong></em><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="images/emailupdates/pdfonline.pdf" target="_blank" title="GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES STAND AGAINST DARFUR - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE">GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES STAND AGAINST DARFUR - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE</a></font></u><a href="images/emailupdates/nenewscigtax.pdf" target="_blank" title="The Northeast News - Raise the Cigarette Tax"><br />
<br>
<strong>July 17, 2008</strong><br />
   <em><strong>THE COUNTRY CHRONICLE<br /></strong></em><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="images/emailupdates/pdfonline.pdf" target="_blank" title="GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES STAND AGAINST DARFUR - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE">GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES STAND AGAINST DARFUR - GUEST EDITORIAL BY JOEL LOURIE</a></font></u><a href="images/emailupdates/nenewscigtax.pdf" target="_blank" title="The Northeast News - Raise the Cigarette Tax"><br />
   </a>
   </td>
   </tr>
   </tbody>
   </table>

 

 

I need php code where I can pull the list of pdf the way it is but the first 3.

[discomatt]

Where are you getting this file from. It's horribly formatted. There are duplicate entries and some anchor tags that aren't even closed.

 

You're gonna wanna use regex to parse this file, but I'm not going to attempt it with such inconsistent formatting. There are duplicate titles with different anchor text, duplicate anchors, and as stated before, unclosed anchor tags.

 

If you can give me a clean source I can write to a regex to scrap the URLs.