Hello again, Would anyone perhaps know how to get the value of a specific element in an HTML document with PHP? What I'm doing right now is using file_get_contents to pull up the HTML code from another website, and on that website there is a textarea: <textarea id="body" name="body" rows="12" cols="75" tabindex="1">Hello World!</textar...
I am trying to get the character count for each row in a text doc. The contents of my text doc are: 1 15 69 124 300 I've been trying variants of the PS script: get-content c:\serverlist.txt | foreach-object {measure-object -character} But the best I can get returned is: Lines Words Characters Property ------- --------...
I am using PHP's function file_get_contents() to fetch contents of a URL and then I process headers through the variable $http_response_header. Now the problem is that some of the URLs need some data to be posted to the URL (for example, login pages). How do I do that? I realize using stream_context I may be able to do that but I am not...
I am trying to read a file in with file_get_contents () - it's a remote HTTP file, and I've checked the URL and it's fine. Only it doesn't work. More to the point the the error message is the standard Firefox server error: The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. ... rathe...
I'm trying to download the contents of a web page using PHP. When I issue the command: $f = file_get_contents("http://mobile.mybustracker.co.uk/mobile.php?searchMode=2"); It returns a page that reports that the server is down. Yet when I paste the same URL into my browser I get the expected page. Does anyone have any idea what's ...
I've got an HTML file with special characters such as: AT&T™ Official Site When I use file_get_contents() on the file and echo the contents, I get something like this: AT&T\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 Official Site How can I convert the latter to the former? This is all I'm running: echo file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/uds...
Usually I save documents (images, mpegs, excel, word docs, etc...) for my friends or family on my website's root, inside a directory called /files/ or something similar. Nothing too uncommon. But, I have been playing with user session control, and allowing users to upload files to the dedicated /files/ directory. (the file names are s...
I have a problem while using the file_get_contents function. I am using it to get a response from a different web server, but it's not returning anything (shown as empty string using var_dump). Also, the problem is only while calling this specific server, because I got result when I used Google's address; and it's working fine in my loca...
Hi there, is there a way to rebuild Mac OSX Snow Leopard's Dashboard Widget 'Web Clip' on a PHP website? Something like a crawler or scraper. I thought about using file_get_contents to getting the page content into the page, but how do I select a section on the external page? And does this work with session/login content as well? I'm ...
Hi all, I need to download an image from some URL to my server. However, my server's config disallowed me to do it this way: getimagesize( $file ); Because, it generate error: Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in somefile.php on line 10 So, is there another wa...
Hey All! I am currently running into some problems with user's downloading a file stored on my server. I have code set up to auto download a file once the user hits the download button. It is working for all files, but when the size get's larger than 30 MB it is having issues. Is there a limit on user download? Also, I have supplied my ...
I have a page called send.email.php which sends an email - pretty simple stuff - I pass an order id, it creates job request and sends it out. This works fine when used in the context I developed it (Use javascript to make an AJAX call to the URL and pass the order_id as a query parameter) I am now trying to reuse the exact same page in...
I have a page called send.email.php which sends an email - pretty simple stuff - I pass an order id, it creates job request and sends it out. This works fine when used in the context I developed it (Use javascript to make an AJAX call to the URL and pass the order_id as a query parameter) I am now trying to reuse the exact same page in ...
I've recently posted here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2627645/accessing-session-when-using-file-get-contents-in-php about a problem I was having and the general consensus is that I'm not doing it right... while I generally think "as long as it works..." I thought I'd get some feedback on how I could do it better... I was to send ...
i want to check remote url's page contents. IF remote site's page content contains string http://yahoo.com set $qqq = YH if not contains $qqq = NOYH. i am not talking about "url of that page" im talking about page content of url $url = "'".$get['url']."'"; $needle = "http://yahoo.com/"; $contents = file_get_contents($url); if(stripos($c...
Currently I'm using file_get_contents() to submit GET data to an array of sites, but upon execution of the page I get this error: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded All I really want the script to do is start loading the webpage, and then leave. Each webpage may take up to 5 minutes to load fully, and I don't ne...
I've got a php file echoing hashes from a MySQL database. This is necessary for a remote program I'm using, but at the same time I need my other php script opening and checking it for specified strings POST parsing. If it checks for the string pre-parsing, it'll just get the MySQL query rather than the strings to look for. I'm not sure ...
Im wondering what affect loading an external page with php has on a sites analytics. If php is loading an external page, and not an actual browser, will the javascript that reports back to google analytics register the page load as a hit? ...
hi, i get the html from another site with file_get_contens, my question is how can i get a specific tag value? let's say i have: <div id="global"><p class="paragraph">1800</p></div> how can i get paragraph's value? thanks ...
I'm trying to use file_get_contents() to get the response from a server and this error was encountered. Could someone tell me what is the reason and how to fix it? The portion of the code is: $api = "http://smpp5.routesms.com:8080/bulksms/sendsms?username=$username&password=$password&source=$source&destination=$destin&dl...