View the source of another page

[kevloink]

Ok. From www.whatever.com/index.php how can I get the source for www.anothersite.com/page.php ?

[btherl]

You can send an email to the webmaster and ask for it.  Do you own www.anothersite.com?

[btherl]

hmm.. do you want the php source or the html source?

[kevloink]

Those sites were examples, lol.

 

I just want the HTML source.

[soycharliente]

You go to the page, hold control, and push 'u'? Or how can one page access the HTML code of another page?

[sKunKbad]

$lines = file('http://www.anothersite.com/page.php/');
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
    echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
}

[sKunKbad]

i tried to edit my post, but the time to edit had expired. I got that code from the php docs on php.net. I was hoping to figure out a way to leaving in the whitespace, so that the html looks nicer when displayed, but I haven't figured it out.

[soycharliente]

trim()

http://www.php.net/trim

[sKunKbad]

i don't want to trim the whitespace, i want it left in!

[trq]

I think your looking for nl2br().

[sKunKbad]

Actually, when you look at the actual HTML code that is opened, there are tab characters on many lines, but they are not being represented in the output.

[smc]

Also keep in mind the PHP files your accessing are post-parsed. Any PHP in the file will return just as plain HTML since PHP is operated server side.

 

And yeah I also think your looking for nl2br() but just incase that doesn't work keep in mind you can always cheat and do something like

 

$file = str_replace( " ", "<WHITE>", $file );

 

process your file

 

$file = str_replace ( "<WHITE>", " ", $file );

 

This basically transforms the white space to data PHP won't touch, then transforms it back again. Haven't tested it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

[sKunKbad]

This worked:

 

<?php
$lines = file('http://www.yoursite.com');
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
echo str_replace("	","     ",htmlentities($line)) . "<br />\n";
}
?>

[chigley]

file_get_contents() would work too.

[sKunKbad]

I couldn't figure out how to do it with file_get_contents() and still have the appropriate whitespace and line breaks. I did however provide a good solution to the original question, so maybe somebody else can come up with another way or a better way and share. I'm still a php newbie!