Question

I am trying get my head around how you can run the following php:

$html = file_get_contents(curPageURL()); //where curPageURL() returns the current page URL

without causing an infinite loop

EDIT

I need to have the contents of the entire, rendered page, in a variable.

I have tried:

if(!isset($_COOKIE['page_fetch'])){
    $html = file_get_contents(curPageURL());
    setcookie('page_fetch',$html, time()+20,'/');
} else {
    $html = $_COOKIE['page_fetch'];
}

Answer 1

I’m not sure why you’d want to, but could you pass a variable telling it to stop?

if (!$_REQUEST['stop']) {
    $url = curPageURL() . '?stop=1';
    $html = file_get_contents($url);
}