Re: Reading Remote Files

Hi Tom, Try this piece of code $remote=file("http://www.remoteserver.com/thefile.html"); // now you have the remote page in array $remote , 1 line -1 element $long_string=implode($remote,''); $without_chunk=ereg_replace('<!--Start\ border1-->(.+)<!--End\ border1-->',' ',$long_string); I hope this'll help you br Michal -- **************************** Michal Thomka Programmer/Developer _______________________ surfEU.com GmbH Nordbahnstrasse 36/1/3 A-1020 Wien Tel: +43 1 9989777-208 Fax: +43 1 9989777-200 mailto: misko@surfeu.com http://www.surfeu.at/ **************************** Tom Harris wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having trouble working with a remote file. What I want to do is grab an > HTML file from our partner's site, and remove a chunk of between two html > comments <!--Start border1--> & <!--End border1--> and then display what's > left of the file in the browser. > > The first problem is when I do fread it dies in the following code > > $filename="http://www.remoteserver.com/thefile.html"; > $fp=fopen($filename, "r") or die("couldn't open"); > $body=fread($fp, filesize($filename)) or die("couldn't read"); > > I'm guessing it can't get the filesize from a remote system, is there a way > around this? > > Of course after this problem is solved, I have to figure out how to cut out > the chunk of text. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net