[SOLVED] Feed included URL into a variable.

[Humpty]

G'day Guys.

 

I need to access a page (CGI) on a different server.  I can do this fine with an include and that will display all the info I need on the screen.

 

The problem I face is that I actually need to parse through that info.  When i try assigning it to a variable...

$dogggg = include ("$SpecialString");

...the variable is always "1".   

 

$specialString is the URL

 

Clearly what I am doing is wrong but if someone can please point me in the right direction for what I need to do in order to get that output into a variable so that I can parse it, do what I need to with that info and then display it.

 

Thaks heaps

-Humpty

 

[artacus]

curl is what you want.

[trq]

This can be easily achieved with output buffering. $var contains the output of your include.

<?php

  ob_start();

  include 'urltoinclude';

  $var = ob_get_clean();

  // rest of code.

?>

[Humpty]

cURL: artacus; It seems to be a very full featured thing. I was after something far simpler though.

 

ob_start(): thorpe; That is exactly what I was after.  Thankyou very much for that.

 

I would like to thank you both for this and really appreciate it, you have both given me two new things to look into for other future uses.

 

Thanks.      ...did I say thanks yet?

 

-Humpty

[artacus]

That will only work if he wants to display that page. Its not going to work if he wants to return it as a variable and parse thru it.

 

$dogggg = include ("$SpecialString");

returns 1 meaning it succeeded. It's NOT the text from the page. If it's a page that you have control over (I doubt it), you can make it's contents read something like

<?php
$doggg = "...whatever...";

 

Otherwise use curl.

 

[Humpty]

No, No this is good:

 

ob_start();
include ("$SpecialString");
$var222 = ob_get_clean();
$var333 = strstr($var222, 'INVALID');

It gives me that ability to do what I need to do.

 

When I say Parse I mean more than anything search through a string in most cases for a specific item or keyword.

[trq]

Its not going to work if he wants to return it as a variable and parse thru it.

 

Read my post. The output of the include is now stored in $var.

 

Of course... an even easier option (which slipped my mind for some wierd reason) would be to simply use  file_get_contents.

[artacus]

The output of the include is now stored in $var.

 

Yeah I missed the var assignment the first time thru.

 

file_get_contents works for this huh? You are a genius.

[Humpty]

does either have merrits over the other?  (cURL is out of the picture now)

[trq]

I would think that using file_get_contents is cleaner, even if it just on your end. Performance wise I should'nt imagine there would be too much difference.

[Humpty]

Again Thank you to both of you