function that can return the output of the URL

Hi pros, I am having some problems remotely get html output so that I can search it for a particular phrase. I am on a project in making a website for a shoutcast (http://www.shoutcast.com <http://www.shoutcast.com/> ) DJ. He wants the website to automatically updates the “current song” title being broadcasted. For those who don’t know how shoutcast works, here it is: - A shoutcast server is installed at a web server, in this case it is at http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000 <http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000/> . - The DJ has software that connects his broadcasting software to the server. Details not important. - Listeners connects to the DJ’s software via the server. - The server collects information from both the broadcasting software and the client and generates a HTML interface at http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000 <http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000/> so that both the DJ and the listeners can view the station’s status. One of the info in that page is the “Current song” title – http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000/played.html My plan was to fopen() the http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000/played.html and search the page for the song title, but, in actual fact, the page doesnot exist! It is generated by the shoutcast server. Then I try to include() http://www.shinningstudios.com:8000/played.html so that i make a real page out of it. However, it still din work because the page does not exist!! My conclusion was that I needed a function that can return the output of the URL rather than the actual file. I believe this is possible because in macromedia flash 6, I use something similar, loadvariables() to get the output of a file (i.e. php). So… can anyone tell me what is this function or what else you think I can try? Yours sincerely, Mr See Kok Boon