HawaiiThad Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hi, First post. please bear with me. I'll try not to act like a complete noob. ;-) I am trying to pull some data from another web page. Here is my code: <?php if ($chart_URL = file_get_contents("http://thad.com", r)) { <!-- Some code --> } else { echo "Error4"; } ?> And of course when I look at the source code of my web page in my browser I see the 'Error4'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Using curl is better, you can also use a stream context for more control file_get_contents. Check for exactly false for failure. $chart_URL = file_get_contents("http://thad.com"); if($chart_URL === FALSE){ echo "Error4"; } else { echo $chart_URL; } 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 As for the scraping data aspect: curl (to me is the best method to connect and can also follow redirects) file_get_contents (fast and easy, can create a stream context but still limited in what you can do, it will fail a lot) preg_match or preg_match_all simplehtmldom dom simplexml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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