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Posted by javelin on 02/21/07 20:03
On Feb 21, 12:29 pm, "Steve" <no....@example.com> wrote:
> "javelin" <google.1.jvm...@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
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> news:1172079828.170362.243730@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> | fopen fails to produce anything but a blank page, as I expected it
> | would when I "rtfm". The target site is not mine, and I can't hope to
> | have it opened for access anytime soon.
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> you don't need to have it 'opened for access'. you aren't getting source
> code from them, just html...which they offer publically.
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> | It is, essentially, a blog,
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> doesn't matter
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> | and I need to get the posts off of a certain category every hour or
> | so.
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> write your script (the one where you will use fopen because you rtfm) and
> put it on a cron job or windows scheduled task.
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> | I just needed some PHP or CGI code that can automatically import
> | the html from a supplied URL, then display it. From there, I can work
> | out a means to manipulate the resulting page.
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> painfully, but probably so. just kidding. ;^)
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> | Any recommendations from the manual or elsewhere I can look into?
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> fopen
> fread
> stream_get_meta_data
> http_response_header
> (hell, even file_get_contents works)
Thanks for all the refs. I'll get to reading again, and let you know
if my eyes get crossed up in a knot (won't be the first time).
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