Opening a url

[nitch]

Hey,

 

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to use php to open a file on another website to get the contents.  for example

 

$filestuff = fopen("http://www.tutorialpod.com/index.php","r") or die("could not open");
$contents = fread($filestuff, filesize("http://www.tutorialpod.com/index.php")) or die("could not read");
fclose($filestuff);
echo $contents;

 

this code is executing from another website and dies on the fopen statement.  What I want is to just get the contents of that page, after the php code is executed on the server and displayed in a browser.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[per1os]

Use phpinfo(); and search for "allow_url_fopen"  if that is not enabled you cannot use fopen to retrieve the file.

 

Try www.php.net/file_get_contents or www.php.net/file

 

But chances are if the allow_url_fopen is not enabled/on you cannot do it.

[dbillings]

What specifically are you trying to retrieve from that page? You might be able to do a page scrape to retrieve the data.

[Yesideez]

nitch, are you trying to do something like this?

 

http://www.pictureinthesky.net/utils/ripper.php