text without html tags retrieved by php's fopen(http:// function.

[kcmakwana]

I want to retrieve one page from remote site by using fopen(http://www.somesite/somepage.html);
next, I store the content of this page to $content variable with fgets function. entire content is stored.but the original page i try to retrieve has tables with 5 columns and 50 rows but my $content does not contain html tags,like <table> <tr> <td> etc.I wans the same. I havent used any preg_match to strip html tags. Any solution?

[hmsnacker123]

Hope This Helps:

function strip_html_tags( $text )
{
    $text = preg_replace(
        array(
          // Remove invisible content
            '@<head[^>]*?>.*?</head>@siu',
            '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siu',
            '@<script[^>]*?.*?</script>@siu',
            '@<object[^>]*?.*?</object>@siu',
            '@<embed[^>]*?.*?</embed>@siu',
            '@<applet[^>]*?.*?</applet>@siu',
            '@<noframes[^>]*?.*?</noframes>@siu',
            '@<noscript[^>]*?.*?</noscript>@siu',
            '@<noembed[^>]*?.*?</noembed>@siu',
          // Add line breaks before and after blocks
            '@</?((address)|(blockquote)|(center)|(del))@iu',
            '@</?((div)|(h[1-9])|(ins)|(isindex)|(p)|(pre))@iu',
            '@</?((dir)|(dl)|(dt)|(dd)|(li)|(menu)|(ol)|(ul))@iu',
            '@</?((table)|(th)|(td)|(caption))@iu',
            '@</?((form)|(button)|(fieldset)|(legend)|(input))@iu',
            '@</?((label)|(select)|(optgroup)|(option)|(textarea))@iu',
            '@</?((frameset)|(frame)|(iframe))@iu',
        ),
        array(
            ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
            "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0",
            "\n\$0", "\n\$0",
        ),
        $text );
    return strip_tags( $text );
} 

(Credit: http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2..._tags_web_page)

[kcmakwana]

I want the page as it is,means I want all tags which the page originally have, I think,your code is to remove the tags.

[hmsnacker123]

Oh, most apologies, Errm have you tried the file_get_contents function?

[kcmakwana]

let me try, file_get_content may work.

[kcmakwana]

i don't know why,but fopen(http:// function returns entire remote webpage without any html tags, it replaces all tags with ^M or Carriage Return character. for example If there is <td>subject</td>, it will retrieve ^Msubject^M. ,BTW, file_get_content works fine. i m using php 4.2. on apache on linux server. I tried remote page from remote server as well as local page on same server.But now, My purpose is solved with file_get_content. thx.

[diltony]

<?php
$handle = fopen("http://www.dynamicdrive.com/", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
echo "<xmp>$contents</xmp>";
?>

To actually store the data
replace last line with
$contents=urlencode("$contents");
then save it to ur dbase like that.
To retrieve, just use your urldecode to reverse the encoding.
I am using php 5 now, but i used this same code when i was using php 4.2 so it should work!

[hmsnacker123]

OK, Try this:

<?php
$page = '';
$fh = fopen('http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/','r') or die('Unable to open file.');
while(! feof($fh)){
    $page .= fread($fh, 1048576);
}
echo $page;
fclose($fh);
?>

Alternativly you can use cURL:

<?php
$c = curl_init('http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/');
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$page = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);
?>

[kcmakwana]

yes it is also working