Posted by Benjamin Esham on 09/07/06 23:45

Cain wrote:

> How would I get this Wikipedia XML:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Alastair_Ralphs into a PHP
> variable (without copy and pasting it manually)?

Use file_get_contents():

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

By the way... if you're going to be doing a lot of work with Wikipedia's
data, please download your own copy of the database:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
http://download.wikimedia.org/

Not only will your scripts run faster, but it will also take some strain off
of Wikipedia's servers.

HTH,
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