File grabbing

[NetworkTown.Net]

HI

I would like to know if any one has some tutorials on php file grabbing so i can learn how php can grab files from urls.

 

[Dan]

$data = file_get_contents('http://url/to/file');
That gives you the whole source of that file in one string.

$data = file('http://url/to/file');
That gives you an array with each line being an array item.
(The first line would be $data[0] and the next line would be $data[1], etc.)

 

[PoorDoggie]

you could use a load of f functions, like I would probably do

fopen, feof, fread etc... but Dans seems much simpler! lol

 

[jerometan]

Try fsockopen.

The good thing about this is that it can send HTTP headers.

There are many servers who protect from such bots by sending data only after receiving a valid browser header.

You can try http://phpclasses.org