Question

I am using this file_get_contents for fetching external website html. but it is returning different output as compare to live one.

ExternalUrl : http://www.target.com/c/baby-baby-bath-bath-safety/-/N-5xtji#?lnk=nav_t_spc_3_inc_1_1

My live code :
http://apptoplay.com/getImageUrl/file_get_contents.php

code

$url="http://www.target.com/c/baby-baby-bath-bath-safety/-/N-5xtji#?lnk=nav_t_spc_3_inc_1_1";
$html = file_get_contents($url);
    echo $html;

Edit: Differences are in HTML. both are showing different totally different contents.

Answer 1

you have to tell cURL to accept cookies.

Try this:

<?php
/* STEP 1. let’s create a cookie file */
$ckfile = tempnam ("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE");

/* STEP 2. visit the homepage to set the cookie properly */
$ch = curl_init ("http://www.target.com/");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);

/* STEP 3. visit cookiepage.php */
$ch = curl_init ("http://www.target.com/c/baby-baby-bath-bath-safety/-/N-5xtji#?lnk=nav_t_spc_3_inc_1_1");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
echo $output = curl_exec ($ch);
?>

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