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get url content PHP

Asked 2012-07-06T13:22:24.147
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I wanna put the content of a URL in a string and the process it. However, I have a problem.

I get this error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.findchips.com/avail?part=74ls244) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Redirection limit reached,

I have heard this comes due to page protection and headers, cookies and stuff. How can I override it?

I also have tried alternatives such as fread along with fopen but I guess I just don't know how to do this.

Can anyone help me please?

php url curl file-get-contents
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answered 2013-03-29T15:57:35.030
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Use cURL,

Check if you have it via phpinfo();

And for the code:

function getHtml($url, $post = null) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    if(!empty($post)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
    } 
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;
}
answered 2012-07-06T13:30:25.630
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Try using cURL instead. cURL implements a cookie jar, while file_get_contents doesn't.

answered 2012-07-06T13:28:09.443

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