Help with HTML + PHP

[Artiom]

I need to recieve the resulting page of http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=search&noalias=1&sa.name=Cowboy+Bebop&sa.type=4&sa.airdate0=2001&sa.atts=0&do.search=Search
as pure HTML code. Yet, when I use standard PHP file functions, they return garbage. Where do I do wrong? Help please! Is it possible to work this around with standard PHP functions (without extentions)?

[joshi_v]

If u can post your code, it will be helpful to see where is the problem!

[Artiom]

Sure :)

Here it is

[code]
<?php
$str="http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=search&noalias=1&sa.name=Cowboy+Bebop&sa.type=4&sa.airdate0=2001&sa.atts=0&do.search=Search";

$f=file_get_contents($str);
//$out=fgets($f);
echo $f;
?>
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I've tried using file(), fopen() with "rb" or "r" - the result slightly differs, but it is still garbage. :( 

[joshi_v]

Have you check in your  php.ini settings?

because when you are using an URL as file name , fopen_wrappers have been enabled.

Regards,

Joshi.

[Artiom]

When these wrapers are disabled, PHP issues a wanrning (i've just checked on another host). In my case it actually returns some data, yet it is wrong. 

[Artiom]

Just in case yet another noob gets caught on this. The thing is HTML stream is gziped, gz_ group of functions has to be used. A valid code would be

[code]
<?php
$str="http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=search&noalias=1&sa.name=Cowboy+Bebop&sa.ty

pe=4&sa.airdate0=2001&sa.atts=0&do.search=Search";
$f=gzopen($str, "r");
while(!gzeof($f))
{
$out=gzgets($f);
echo $out;
}
?>
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