Querying Webpage PL/PHP

[dsheller]

Say I wanted to do something like the Inet control does in VB6:

Inet1.OpenURL(url as string)

How would one accomplish this in either Perl or PHP? Would you have to open your own connection to the URL and get what is returned?

[CornedBee]

With PHP, you can supply a http URL in pretty much any place where a file name is wanted, e.g. in fopen(), file_get_contents(), ...

file_get_contents() is the easiest of those, but it needs PHP 4.3 or later.

[dsheller]

Alright, while I didn't use PHP this time that will be helpful for the future! What I did was use perl and the following:

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $QUERY_URL = "http://google.com/movies?sc=1&near=27502&rl=1&tid=ae5bb734333a162c";

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $QUERY_URL);
$req->header(Accept => 'text/html');

my $res = $ua->request($req);
my $content = $res->content; 

But thanks for your suggestion!