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[tomt]

I am need to know how to grab content from another site (my own) and display it on a php page. I know how to do this in coldfusion

<cfhttp url = "http://mysite.com" method = "get" resolveURL = "yes">
<cfoutput>#cfhttp.fileContent#</cfoutput>

Very simple. This code grabs the entire source code of the url and displays it as part of the page. I am pretty sure the same thing can be done in php but don't know how.

Thanks

[perkiset]

<?php

echo file_get_contents("http://www.mysite.com{$_GET['REQUEST_URI']}");

?>

This will append the original requested URI to the call from the remote site - note that this will be vital in the case of passing through graphics and such.

I have not checked this to make sure it's OK - this is straight from my @$$.

[tomt]

Images did not come through. In coldfusion that is what the resolve url part does. It appends the domain name to links that do not have them.

Thanks

[perkiset]

Oh, wait I'm an idiot - I think about everything from my perspective of a mod-rewrite site into a single URL.

This will work, and graphics will float through if you mod_rewrite the site so that every request for EVERYTHING comes into this PHP Script.

[tomt]

I just figured out I don't need the pictures any way. My source page can also be generated by javascript code. So all I need is to be able import the javascript. The javascript then does the rest, bringing in images and text. So what you have there works perfectly for me.

Thanks

[tomt]

I didn't see your reply before I posted my last message. Here is what I am doing. I have several wpmu sites. I am creating a centralized ad posting based on cgi referrer code. Of course I am writing this in cf because that is what I know best. I just needed the display code for my wordpress template. And as said your solution works.

Thanks,

[tomt]

I just improved this to be even better. Doing a google search I found this function at http://www.namepros.com/programming/53456-parse-a-url-php-return-domain.html.

<?php

$myurl = "http: //www . thesite . com";

function parse_url_domain ($url) {
$parsed = parse_url($url);
$hostname = $parsed['host'];
return $hostname;
}

$raw_url = parse_url($myurl);
$domain_only =str_replace ('www.','', $raw_url);
$theurl = "http: //www. mysite.com/s/a.cfm?aver=" . $domain_only['host'];

echo file_get_contents($theurl);

?>

I can get $myurl to equal the domain of the site using a wordpress function. And on the coldfusion side all I have to do is run the url variable aver through a switch case statement to get the correct ad for that site. Or could place the ads in a database and do a simple sql request. Either way this is going to make updating ads very, very easy.


<edit: URL munged by Perk>

[tomt]

I am using Perkeset's solution for now. For my last solution to work I have to first assign categories to each blog and I haven't had the time to do that yet. Any way I discovered this morning the server that my ad server is on was down. This resulted in this being displayed across the top of each blog

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution

Again php is not my strong suit. In coldfusion I would place a cftry/cfcatch statement around it. Is there some kind of if statement that I can place around my code to catch this error that would just ignore the get content command and just process the rest of the page?

Thanks

[ehlo]

You can use a similar approach in php:

Code:

<?php
try
{
  // code to run here
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
  // handle exception here
}
?>

However in my sites I always turn off error reporting in the php.ini or by including

Code:

<?php ini_set('display_errors', 0); ?>

at the top of the page. This will work as long as the error is not fatal in which case the page won't display.

[perkiset]

There's also

error_reporting(0);

which turns off all reporting, but does it for the local instance only (my preference).

[tomt]

I used <?php ini_set('display_errors', 0); ?> as I could see what it meant and how to use it. Problem solved. Thanks