How do I get the HTML code of a web page in PHP

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I want to retrieve the HTML code of a link  web page  in PHP  For example  if the link is   https   stackoverflow com questions ask  then I want the HTML code of the page which is served  I want to retrieve this HTML code and store it in a PHP variable   How can I do this

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Also if you want to manipulate the retrieved page somehow  you might want to try some php DOM parser  I find PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser  very easy to use

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look at this function   http   ru php net manual en function file-get-contents php

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include once  simple html dom php     url  http   stackoverflow com questions ask    html   file get html  url     You can get the whole HTML code as an array  parsed form  using this code Download the  simple html dom php  file here http   sourceforge net projects simplehtmldom files simple html dom php download

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Here is two different  simple ways to get content from URL   1  the first method  Enable Allow url include from your hosting  php ini or somewhere    lt  php  variableee   readfile  http   example com     echo  variableee    gt     or   2 the second method  Enable php curl  php imap and php openssl   lt  php    you can add anoother curl options too    see here - http   php net manual en function curl-setopt php function get dataa  url       ch   curl init       timeout   5    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 4 0  compatible  MSIE 8 0  Windows NT 6 0       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYHOST false     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER false     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT MAXREDIRS  10     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT   timeout      data   curl exec  ch     curl close  ch     return  data      variableee   get dataa  http   example com    echo  variableee    gt

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you could use file get contents if you are wanting to store the source as a variable however curl is a better practive     url   file get contents  http   example com    echo  url     this solution will display the webpage on your site  However curl is a better option

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If your PHP server allows url fopen wrappers then the simplest way is    html   file get contents  https   stackoverflow com questions ask      If you need more control then you should look at the cURL functions    c   curl init  https   stackoverflow com questions ask    curl setopt  c  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true     curl setopt     other options you want       html   curl exec  c    if  curl error  c       die curl error  c        Get the status code  status   curl getinfo  c  CURLINFO HTTP CODE    curl close  c

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I tried this code and it s working for me    html   file get contents  www google com     myVar   htmlspecialchars  html  ENT QUOTES   echo  myVar

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you can use the DomDocument method to get an individual HTML tag level variable too    homepage   file get contents  https   www example com      doc   new DOMDocument   doc- gt loadHTML  homepage    titles    doc- gt getElementsByTagName  h3    echo  titles- gt item 0 - gt nodeValue

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You may want to check out the YQL libraries from Yahoo  http   developer yahoo com yql  The task at hand is as simple as  select   from html where url    http   stackoverflow com questions ask    You can try this out in the console at  http   developer yahoo com yql console  requires login   Also see Chris Heilmanns screencast for some nice ideas what more you can do  http   developer yahoo net blogs theater archives 2009 04 screencast collating distributed information html

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output   file  http   www example com    didn t work until I enabled  allow url fopen  allow url include  and file uploads in php ini for PHP7

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Simple way  Use file get contents      page   file get contents  http   stackoverflow com questions ask      Please note that allow url fopen must be true in you php ini to be able to use URL-aware fopen wrappers   More advanced way  If you cannot change your PHP configuration  allow url fopen is false by default and if ext curl is installed  use the cURL library to connect to the desired page

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