Re: Reading a web page as a text string

You could do something like this: $ip = "10.030.88.24"; //example $url = "http://www.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=$ip"; $fp = @fopen($url, 'r') or die("Cannot Open"); Then, parse the $fp with fgets, or something to find the string you are after. -- Gaylen gfraley5@earthlink.net Home http://www.gaylenandmargie.com PHP KISGB v2.22 Guestbook http://www.gaylenandmargie.com/phpwebsite "Michael J. Seely" <mike@peryourrequest.com> wrote in message news:a04320401b81a0a4cd323@[208.37.135.187]... > HI Folks, > > How can I read a html page as a text file? > > I saw a demo of someone doing this on a Mac using AppleScript. The > example sent a zip code as a variable attached to the remote site > url. This resulted in a web page being sent back with the city and > state info included. He then read the page as a text string, parsed > out the city and state info and used it. > > How could this be done with PHP? > > I think the sending the url and zip code variable could easily be > done with a <form>. How do you read the html page that is > returned????? > > Any ideas. Thanks. > -- > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > Michael Seely 408-777-9949 > > > > >