Question

This question is simple. What function would I use in a PHP script to load data from a URL into a string?

Answer 1

CURL is usually a good solution: http://www.php.net/curl

 // create a new cURL resource $ch = curl_init();  // set URL and other appropriate options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  // grab URL and pass it to the browser $html = curl_exec($ch);  // close cURL resource, and free up system resources curl_close($ch);