I wanna put the content of a URL in a string and the process it. However, I have a problem.
I get this error:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.findchips.com/avail?part=74ls244) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Redirection limit reached,
I have heard this comes due to page protection and headers, cookies and stuff.
How can I override it?
I also have tried alternatives such as fread along with fopen but I guess I just don't know how to do this.
Can anyone help me please?
1) local simplest methods
<?php
echo readfile("http://example.com/"); //needs "Allow_url_include" enable
//OR
echo include("http://example.com/"); //needs "Allow_url_include" enabled
//OR
echo file_get_contents("http://example.com/");
//OR
echo stream_get_contents(fopen('http://example.com/', "rb")); //you may use "r" instead of "rb" //needs "Allow_url_fopen" enabled
?>
2) Better Way is CURL:
echo get_remote_data('http://example.com/?myPage', 'var2=something&var3=blabla' ); // GET & POST request
See function code here. It automatically handles FOLLOWLOCATION problem + Remote urls are automatically re-corrected! ( src="./imageblabla.png"
--------> src="http://example.com/path/imageblabla.png"
)
p.s.GNU/Linux users might need php5-curl
package.
Use cURL
,
Check if you have it via phpinfo();
And for the code:
function getHtml($url, $post = null) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
if(!empty($post)) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
}
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
Try using cURL instead. cURL implements a cookie jar, while file_get_contents doesn't.