Getting a Document from a Remote Address
Although PHP is a server-side language, it can act as a client, requesting data from remote servers and making the output available to your scripts. If you are already comfortable reading files from the server, you will have no problem using PHP to acquire information from the Web. In fact, the syntax is exactly the same. You can use fopen() to connect to a Web address in the same way as you would with a file. Listing 14.4 opens a connection to a remote server and requests a page, printing the result to the browser.
Listing 14.4. Getting and Printing a Web Page with fopen()
1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC 2: "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 3: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 4: <html> ... |
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