WesPear Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I've got a rather perplexing question on my hands. I need to scrape some data from a particular website, and had myself geared up for some regular expression magic--when I realized the site was serving straight XML files, transformed client side with XSLT. "Lovely" I thought, "This will make my life easy!" Alas, no matter what method I try to retrieve the xml I can only manage to fetch the rendered HTML output. file_get_contents returns rendered html. curl_exec returns the rendered html. a socket connection returns rendered html. The most frustrating part is I can "view source" in my browser window and see the xml I'm looking for, but can't get to it with PHP. Arrrrgh! Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
only one Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 check the file() function: http://uk.php.net/file , there's a good example there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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