On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:11 +0200, madunix wrote:
> > trying http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
> > do you a piece of code that  read parts  pages.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ashley Sheridan
> > <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:03 +0200, madunix wrote:
> >
> >         > I've been trying to read the contents from a particular URL
> into a
> >         > string in PHP, and can't get it to work.  any help.
> >         >
> >         > Thanks
> >         >
> >         > --
> >         > If there is a way, I will find one...***
> >         > If there is none, I will make one..."***
> >         > **************** madunix  ******************
> >         >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         How have you been trying to do it so far?
> >
> >         There are a couple of ways. file_get_contents() and fopen()
> >         will work on URL's if the right ports are open.
> >
> >         Most usually though cURL is used for this sort of thing.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         Ash
> >         http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > If there is a way, I will find one...***
> > If there is none, I will make one..."***
> > **************** madunix  ******************
> >
> >
>
> I think you're over-complicating things by using fsockopen(). Try one of
> the functions I mentioned in my last email
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
I agree with Ashley, use one of the other options and then parse the
response to get the part of the page you'd like to work with.

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