Downloading and parsing web-stuff

Very basic:

What is the easiest way in php to download the source code (HTML etc.)
of a given URL (say, http://www.google.com) and parse this code for
certain patterns?

I guess my question can be split in two:

1) How do I download a webpage (into a string or whatever)?

2) How can I do string manupulation, regexp matching, information
extraction etc. on the downloaded information?

/David

David Rasmussen wrote:
> Very basic:
>
> What is the easiest way in php to download the source code (HTML etc.)
> of a given URL (say, http://www.google.com) and parse this code for
> certain patterns?
>
> I guess my question can be split in two:
>
> 1) How do I download a webpage (into a string or whatever)?
>
> 2) How can I do string manupulation, regexp matching, information
> extraction etc. on the downloaded information?
>
> /David
Download:

$file = fopen("http://www.google.com","r");
while (!eof($file)) {
$buffer = fgets($file, 512);
}

and then you just do whatever you want with $buffer.

Afaik.

S

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:27:55 +0300, Sander Van de Moortel <sander@jnm.be>
wrote:

> David Rasmussen wrote: 
> Download:
>
> $file = fopen("http://www.google.com","r");
> while (!eof($file)) {
> $buffer = fgets($file, 512);
> }
>
> and then you just do whatever you want with $buffer.
>
> Afaik.
>
> S

that !eof is invalid as a check. it should be

while (!feof($file))


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