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Posted by Rik on 02/16/07 04:23
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:05:41 +0100, yoko <nana@na.ca> wrote:
>> // Get the HTML file
>> $html =3D file_get_contents($url);
>> // Reduce it to the contents of the <body> tag
>> $body =3D preg_replace("#^.*<body[^>]*>(.*)</body>.*$#si", "\\1",
>> $html);
>> // Strip of whitespace at the beginning and the end
>> $body =3D trim($body);
>
> That worked no problems. What about cURL is that a good method as =
> well?
'the body' of the response for CURL is the entire HTML document, just =
without the headers (so _not_ without the html head). No extra =
functionality there to get only the body.
Using cURL is usefull when:
- You're possibly redirected, cURL will follow the redirect if you tell =
it =
to.
- You want to use cookie or post values to get the content.
-- =
Rik Wasmus
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