Echo external websites HTML source code

[seany123]

it is possible to echo another websites source?

 

ive tried,

 

<?php
    $f = readfile("view-source:http://www.example.com/now");
?>

 

but i get an error:

 

failed to open stream: Invalid argument

 

is there any other way of being able to echo it?

[Maq]

Check out:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

[seany123]

i dont see how it gets the source.

[Rifts]

<?php

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/');

echo $homepage;

?>

[litebearer]

Also might look into

http://www.seopher.com/articles/scraping_website_content_with_php_using_curl

[Maq]

i dont see how it gets the source.

 

Did you read the manual?  It explains how it works and gives you multiple examples of how to use it.  There are other options depending on exactly what you want to do.

[seany123]

<?php

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/');

echo $homepage;

?>

 

that doesnt work... i actually want the source code displayed not the html.

 

what im expecting is lines of html code.

 

 

<?php
$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/');
echo $homepage;
?>

 

shows the search bar and buttons, but what i wanna see is the source, the inputs etc

[Maq]

that doesnt work... i actually want the source code displayed not the html.

 

what im expecting is lines of html code.

 

You just contradicted yourself.  What exactly are you trying to see?  You cannot see server side code, only client side.

[Andy-H]

$addr = 'http://google.com';
$fp   = file_get_contents($addr);

echo stripslashes(htmlentities($fp, ENT_QUOTES));

[seany123]

HTML source code.

 

when you right click and view page source... thats what i want to see.

[Maq]

HTML source code.

 

when you right click and view page source... thats what i want to see.

 

The code provided will do that.

[seany123]

$addr = 'http://google.com';
$fp   = file_get_contents($addr);

echo stripslashes(htmlentities($fp, ENT_QUOTES));

 

 

thats working brilliantly, now i need help with one more thing.

 

i want to search for 2 things inside the source code.

 

first thing is a image... i was thinking of somehow making a search for starting in http:// and ending in .jpg

 

second i need to find the same thing for a .avi file

 

starting in http:// and ending in .avi

 

they need to then be set as variables to i can use them with my db.

[BlueSkyIS]

the only reason "that works brilliantly" is that you can now see the HTML-formatted HTML in your browser. however, what you are seeing is no longer the same as the source code you see on the website. Maq is correct: the previous code is what you want.

[seany123]

the only reason "that works brilliantly" is that you can now see the HTML-formatted HTML in your browser. however, what you are seeing is no longer the same as the source code you see on the website. Maq is correct: the previous code is what you want.

 

for some reason the other code didn't show the source, the current code may not show the true source but it does show the part of the code I need.

 

now i just gotta search for the two links in the code.

 

what would be the most efficient way of doing this?

[laffin]

I much prefer

$addr = 'http://google.com';
$fp   = file_get_contents($addr);

header('Content-type: text/plain');
echo $fp;

 

 

[QuickOldCar]

It sounds to me you need something more like html dom and to fetch tags from the page, like images,href, or anything else you want located in a divider or in the html.

 

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/