Question

I’m trying to get http://www.wowhead.com/spell=74217&power into a variable so that I can parse it as I like and save to my DB. I couldn’t even get to echo it, I might be brain lagged though.

Answer 1

For me, the following code does the job:

var_dump(file_get_contents("http://www.wowhead.com/spell=74217&power"));¬

But I would use an HTTP client library to do it.

Maybe your configuration disabled it, check allow_url_fopen, it must be turned on to be able to use URLs in file_get_contents.