Tag: file_get_contents

Get the HTML of any page with PHP

Quick tip: if you want to get the HTML for any web page you can use the PHP function file_get_contents(). To see the HTML in your web browser wrap the htmlentities  function around the file_get_contents() function.

<?php

echo htmlentities(file_get_contents('http://example.com'));

Which returns:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>IANA &mdash; Example domains</title>
	<!-- start common-head -->
	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_css/2008.1/reset-fonts-grids.css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/_css/2008.1/screen.css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/_css/2008.1/print.css" />
	<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico" />
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/_js/prototype.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/_js/corners.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/_js/common.js"></script>
	<!-- end common-head -->

</head>
<body>
	<!-- start common-bodyhead -->
....
	<!-- end common-bodytail -->

</body>
</html>