Re: Curl cost

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:06 PM, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:28 AM, muad shibani <muad.shibani@gmail.com> wrote: >> what are the costs of using PHP Curl to show another websites on my site as >> stumbleon do .. >> traffic, memory or what? > > If you use curl to suck the web page into a variable, could be > tremendous. Better to curl it into a temporary file if you're going > that way. > Just a followup -- if you want to show other websites on your own page, a friendly way to do this is using an iframe: <?php $site="http://www.example.com"; ?> <h2><a href="<?php echo $site?>"><?php echo $site?></a></h2> <iframe src="<?php echo $site?>" frameborder="0" title="<?php echo $site?>" width="80%" height="200px"><span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;">Your browser does not support iframes</span></iframe> That way, the site gets the hit, and you aren't copying anything. If you do go this way, make sure to provide a break out so the user can open the target site in a new window/tab.