[RESOLVED] Retrieving HTML of a Page

[Zach_VB6]

I need to download the HTML of this page and store it in a string.

I've tried using file() and file_get_contents() and even curl().

But to no avail.

Thanks, Zach

[kows]

file_get_contents() gets the content of this page fine. how exactly were you using it?

$thedata = file_get_contents("http://items.jellyneo.net/?go=show_items&name=palm+fan&name_type=partial&desc=&cat=0&specialcat=0&status=0&rarity=0&sortby=name&numitems=20&prices=1");
echo '<xmp>' . $thedata . '</xmp>'; 

edit: the only thing I can think of is that if you were using it correctly, you may not have had fopen_wrappers enabled? from php.net:

A URL can be used as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename and List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of supported URL protocols.

[Zach_VB6]

As you can see here, allow_url_fopen is set to Off.

I'll have to ask JumpLine about that.

Thank you!

[Zach_VB6]

Can you please provide me a cURL example?

[kows]

I've never used curl, so I'm afraid not. the following function is something I've used in the past, and was found on php.net:

    function httpSocketConnection($host, $method, $path, $data)
    {
        $method = strtoupper($method);       
       
        if ($method == "GET")
        {
            $path.= '?'.$data;
        }   
       
        $filePointer = fsockopen($host, 80, $errorNumber, $errorString);
       
        if (!$filePointer)
        {
            echo 'Failed opening http socket connection: '.$errorString.' ('.$errorNumber.')<br/>\n';
            return false;
        }

        $requestHeader = $method." ".$path."  HTTP/1.1\r\n";
        $requestHeader.= "Host: ".$host."\r\n";
        $requestHeader.= "User-Agent:      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0\r\n";
        $requestHeader.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";

        if ($method == "POST")
        {
            $requestHeader.= "Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n";
        }
       
        $requestHeader.= "Connection: close\r\n\r\n";
       
        if ($method == "POST")
        {
            $requestHeader.= $data;
        }           

        fwrite($filePointer, $requestHeader);
       
        $responseHeader = '';
        $responseContent = '';

        do
        {
            $responseHeader.= fread($filePointer, 1);
        }
        while (!preg_match('/\\r\\n\\r\\n$/', $responseHeader));
       
       
        if (!strstr($responseHeader, "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"))
        {
            while (!feof($filePointer))
            {
                $responseContent.= fgets($filePointer, 128);
            }
        }
        else
        {

            while ($chunk_length = hexdec(fgets($filePointer)))
            {
                $responseContentChunk = '';
           
                $read_length = 0;
               
                while ($read_length < $chunk_length)
                {
                    $responseContentChunk .= fread($filePointer, $chunk_length - $read_length);
                    $read_length = strlen($responseContentChunk);
                }

                $responseContent.= $responseContentChunk;
               
                fgets($filePointer);
               
            }
           
        }

       
       
        return chop($responseContent);
    } 

it can be used like so:

  $host = "www.domain.com";
  $path = "/file.php";
  $method = "get";
  $data = "field1=value1&field2=value2";
  $file = httpSocketConnection($host, $method, $path, $data);
  //would open: www.domain.com/file.php?field1=value1&field2=value2 

you can adapt it to what you're doing. it should work independently of fopen_wrappers.