Reading in a rendered PHP page...

[ironhamster88]

Hi Guys, I need a bit of help.

 

Here's my scenario.

 

I have a page with content populated with PHP (i.e. dragged from a DB and echo'd).

I have another page (on the same server), with this page, I need to drag in the first place and extract the contents of a certain div (i.e. #main_content).

 

The problem is, if I use file_get_contents() and print the result out, i get the php in it, as oppose to the actual output. So, if I have say: echo $page->main_content; I get that in the string that's returned by using file_get_contents().

 

The whole purpose of this is for a site indexing system whereby a cronjob runs a script that grabs the content from certain parts of select pages at set intervals and stores it in a table.

 

If anybody can point me in the right direction, would be much appreciated.

 

Cheers

Pete

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You can either use file_get_contents() and use the URL of the page or you could use an include() and use the output buffer to capture the resulting content.

[ironhamster88]

aah yes, so it was including the PHP because I was targeting the file in relation to the file that was reading it.

 

Cheers for that, works a charm.