Getting the contents of URL to a variable

[Guest_imported]

What is the best way to get the contents of a file to a variable? And how can I prevent it from opening a local file (I want to open just URLs)?

 

[vcherubini]

Try this:

[tt]
$page = fopen(page.txt, "r&quot or die ("can't open file"
[/tt]

That will read the entire contents of page.txt into the variable $page.

To get it from a URL, you can do something like this:

[tt]
$url = "

http://www.mypage.com/file.txt";

$page = fopen($url, "r&quot or die ("can't open file"
[/tt]

In case you are wondering, the "r" within the fopen functions means read only, while "w" mean write.

Hope this helps.

-Vic

vic cherubini
malice365@hotmail.com

http://www.epicsoftware.com

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