Posted by Schraalhans Keukenmeester on 05/18/07 12:23

At Fri, 18 May 2007 02:49:07 -0700, ycquak let his monkeys type:

> Hi,
>
> Currently I need to read contents from a dynamic page, which goes
> something like:
> http://servername/filename.jsp?arg1=a&arg2=b
>
> The content is not static, neither is there a file for me to read from.
> Thus, I would like to know how could I accomplish this task in php. I
> saw from forums, there is a similar implementation of the RSS reader
> which reads it in the following way:
>
> $fileName = url;
>
> $data = implode("", file($fileName)); ...
>
> Will I be able to do the same thing?
>
> I am rather new to php, so would appreciate any help rendered. Thanks!

You can open a webpage using file() if your server allows opening remote
files, but AFAIK parsing the variables like this isn't gonna work. Instead
you probably want to use cURL to send the right http-request.

Side note: implode("", file($filename)) can be replaced with
file_get_contents($filename), which reads the file into a string directly.

Sh.

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