php help :( i want to include a url

[gameduels]

Is there a way you can include a URL into a web page ?

 

this is the game tracker i want to include

http://beta.socom.com/en-us/Blog/Ticker

 

i cant figure it out i know you can

 

 

thanks everyone

[ILMV]

What do you mean include it, you can put it in an iframe?

[JonnoTheDev]

using include() as long as allow_url_fopen is enabled in your php.ini configuration.

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

[gameduels]

i mean i want to display it into my web site. I cant get it to display . I tryed everything i can think of lol

[tang]

Don't use include, it has security implications. Either put it in an iframe (easy but probably not the "best" way to do it) or grab the contents with file_get_contents($url), parse it then include it in your page.

[JonnoTheDev]

file_get_contents($url) is slow. If you want to read the page and extract parts from it then the best method is CURL.

Read the examples http://uk.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

[gameduels]

well im kinda a new at php idk if anyone would show me a code so i can under stand im learning haha

[ILMV]

<?php
        // create curl resource
        $ch = curl_init();

        // set url
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "beta.socom.com/en-us/Blog/Ticker");

        //return the transfer as a string
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        // $output contains the output string
        $output = curl_exec($ch);

        // close curl resource to free up system resources
        curl_close($ch);     
?>

 

try that

[tang]

file_get_contents($url) is slow. If you want to read the page and extract parts from it then the best method is CURL.

Read the examples http://uk.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

 

I scoffed at that when I saw it, didn't think there would be much difference but I've done some tests and CURL is consistently faster over file_get_contents().