Put HTML from another page into a string

[sftrprod]

Hi,
I want to be able to put the HTML of another page into a string. What is the best way to do this? I couldn't really thing of a better way to say this so if you don't understand just tell me and I'll try harder.
Thanks.

[tbirnseth]

What I do is:

$dat = '
Your
Html
Code
Goes
Here
';

Only cavaet is to ensure that any single quotes " ' " are escaped (\'). Hence use normal quotes ' " ' for all strings where possible. Then you can printf$dat) or do whatever you want with it.

I've found using normal quotes in all instances where a variable name is not used is best practices for me. Then the above works with no sweat.

tony

[the tree]

I think this is what you're getting at.

$filename = 'something.htm';
$file = fopen($filename,'r');
$page = fread($file,filesize($filename));

echo $page; 

[Sheldon]

to you want to read or phrase the html? That will phrase it, this will read it in a n editalbe text box.

<?php 

        
if(empty($_GET['action'])){ //opens file to be edited
?> 

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?action=write" method="post">
<textarea name="contents" rows="10" cols="60"> 
<?php 
//this part will open the html page into a text box
//if you mae changes to it you can click the submit buton to save changes
 $fp=fopen("page_to_read.html", "r"); //this is the html pae you want to read. same as if you use the next section.

 while (!feof($fp)){ 
 $line=fgets($fp); 
 print stripslashes("$line"); 
 }//end while 

 fclose($fp); 

 ?> 
 </textarea><br/><br />
 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
</form> 

<?php 
//if you are gong to save the chnages you need to modify the permissions of that page to chmod 777
}else{  //saves changes to the file selected if you make chages

$fp=fopen("page_to_read.html", "w"); //same file as above
 fputs($fp, $_REQUEST['contents']); 


 if (fclose($fp)){ 
 print "<h2>File successfully saved</h2>\n"; 
 }else{ 
 print "<h2><font style=\"color:red;\">There was a problem saving the file</font></h2>\n";
 } 



}//end if action 


 
?>

[sftrprod]

I want to do what the tree said but that doesn't work with pages that are not on my web space.
THanks

[bokeh]

The tree's method can be simplified to simply:

$string = file_get_contents('http://www.domain.com/file.htm'); 

If that doesn't work run the following to see if url file opening is allowed on your server:

<?php

print ini_get('allow_url_fopen');

?>

If url file open is not allowed on your server I have a function to get round that.

[sftrprod]

Hmmm... I get this error:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAct...&location=DE23 6HB&scrambleSeed=32581&searchType=classic&startOoaAt=10&ooascrambleSeed=32581&ooa=on): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/sftr/public_html/takeaway/index.php on line 7
And the ini function returns 1.
What's up with it?
Thanks.

[bokeh]

Take the line break out of the URI and put single quotes around it.
file_get_contents('http://www.domain.com/file.ext?string=123');

[sftrprod]

That is exactly how it is

$string = file_get_contents('http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAction.do?startAt=0&keywords=takeaways&location='.$_POST['postcode'].'&scrambleSeed=32581&searchType=classic&startOoaAt=10&ooascrambleSeed=32581&ooa=on');
echo $string;

[bokeh]

Your code works for me so it must be a server error.

Try this:

<?php
$url = 'http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAction.do?startAt=0&keywords=takeaways&location='.$_POST['postcode'].'&scrambleSeed=32581&searchType=classic&startOoaAt=10&ooascrambleSeed=32581&ooa=on';
$string = http_retrieve($url);
if(!isset($string['errorstring'])){
   echo $string['body'];
}else{
   echo 'could not open file';
}

function http_retrieve($url, $followRedirects = true)
{
   # Returns array(['url'] array(['headers']) ['body']) on success
   # Returns array(['url'] ['errornumber'] ['errorstring']) on failure
   $url = preg_replace('/[\r]|[\n]/', '', $url);     
   $url_parsed = parse_url($url);
   if (empty($url_parsed['scheme'])) $url_parsed = parse_url('http://'.$url);
   $return['url'] = $url_parsed;
   if(!isset($url_parsed["port"])) $url_parsed["port"] = 80;
   $return['url']['port'] = $url_parsed["port"];
   $path = $url_parsed["path"];
   if(empty($path)) $path="/";
   if(!empty($url_parsed["query"])) $path .= "?".$url_parsed["query"];
   $return['url']['path'] = $path;
   $host = $url_parsed["host"];
   $foundBody = false;
   $out = "GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n";
   $out .= "Host: $host\r\n";
   $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
   if(!$fp = @fsockopen($host, $url_parsed["port"], $errornumber, $errorstring, 5)){
       $return['errornumber'] = $errornumber;
       $return['errorstring'] = $errorstring;
       return $return;
   }
   fwrite($fp, $out);
   $headers = NULL;
   $body = NULL;
   while (!feof($fp)) {
       $s = fgets($fp, 128);
       if ($s == "\r\n"){
           $foundBody = true;
           continue;
       }
       if ($foundBody){
           $body .= $s;
       }else{
           if(($followRedirects) && (stristr($s, "location:") != false)) 
                   return http_retrieve(trim(preg_replace("/location:/i", "", $s)));
           $headers .= $s;
       }
   }
   fclose($fp);
   $headers = explode("\n", trim($headers));
   foreach($headers as $header){
       if(strpos($header, ':')){
           list($header, $value) = explode(':', $header);
           $return['headers'][trim($header)] = trim($value);
       }else{
           $return['headers'][substr($header, 0, 4)] = $header;
       }
   }
   $return['body'] = trim($body);
   return $return;
}
?>

[sftrprod]

I put that code there and put the function before the actual code so that it actually worked... but now i get this:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

The request line contained invalid characters following the protocol string.