[PHP] Getting Contents of a Webpage

[Rezek]

I'm pretty sure there is a function to do this already but Google was absolutely no help what-so-ever. I just need something that will return a string containing the contents of a webpage (the HTML basically). How would I go about doing this, or does anyone know how what the built-in function is (if there is one)?

[elfprince13]

you open a socket, and read in the data.

[Rezek]

That helps alot.

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Wow, I need to wait a bit before I go begging for help. After much searching through the PHP documentation I found the function's name is 'file_get_contents(string url)', in case anyone else is wondering.

[Demon]

You can also use fopen(filepath/url, mode)
http://us3.php.net/function.fopen

[Rezek]

Thanks :)

For my purposes, file_get_contents does exactly what I need.