RE: [PHP] grabbing source of a URL

2004-12-10 Thread Vail, Warren
I suspect that you don't really want to cut out everything but the text (since you plan to display it) but check out; http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Now, keep in mind that since you are getting the source from the url, and I'm guessing that the web server serving up the

Re: [PHP] grabbing source of a URL

2004-12-10 Thread Darren W
What about using just the file command and then looping through the array? I do this to scrape sites for content (pics, midi's, fonts) by getting the links from within the html code and using the wwwcopy function in the php docs. I am sure there is a better way to do the pattern recognition but

RE: [PHP] grabbing source of a URL

2004-12-10 Thread Vail, Warren
Oops missed part of your question; know what function to use to grab the page. for the string http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php There are some good samples on the page $dh = fopen($url,'r'); $result = fread($dh,8192); Hope