PHP Equivalent XML HTTP Request

mycoolross posted this at 16:26 — 3rd December 2003.

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Hey guys,

Does PHP have an equivalent of this code?

//ASP

Dim objXmlHttp
Dim strHTML

'// CREATE THE XML OBJECT
Set objXmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")

'// REQUEST THE PAGE
objXmlHttp.open "GET", "http://www.mikeross.tv/linkads/displaylinks.asp?id=2", False

objXmlHttp.send

'// GET THE RESPONSE
strHTML = objXmlHttp.responseText

Set objXmlHttp = Nothing

Response.Write strHTML

Thank you very much!!

Mike

Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. Psalms 112:1

Mark Hensler posted this at 18:02 — 3rd December 2003.

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Joined: Aug 2000

What does XML have to do with retrieving a URL?

you could try:
$html = [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php"]file_get_contents[/url](http://www.mikeross.tv/linkads/displaylinks.asp?id=2);

or, if you want more control:
(I took this out of a function I wrote)

<?php
$url = parse_url($url);

if (strlen($url['port']==0)) $url['port'] = 80;

$fp = fsockopen ($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 3);
if (!$fp) {
    echo \"ERROR: cannot access '$url'\n\n\";
    return false;
}
else {
    $tmp_path = (strlen($url['query'])>0) ? \"$url[path]?$url[query]\" : $url['path'];
    $tmp_host = (strlen($url['port'])>0) ? \"$url[host]:$url[port]\" : $url['host'];
    
    $http_request[] = \"GET $tmp_path HTTP/1.0\";
    $http_request[] = \"Host: $tmp_host\";
    $http_request = implode(\"\r\n\", $http_request) . \"\r\n\r\n\";
    
    fputs ($fp, $http_request);
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $http_response .= fread ($fp, 1024);
    }
    fclose ($fp);
    
    
    $tmp = strpos($http_response, \"\r\n\r\n\");
    $headers = substr($http_response, 0, $tmp);
    $data = substr($http_response, $tmp+4);

}
?>

Mark Hensler
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mycoolross posted this at 18:08 — 3rd December 2003.

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Joined: Oct 2001

The ASP code is really meant to return XML but I have used it to simply write the HTML contenets returned.

Thank you Mark!!

- Mike