PHP function similar to Perl get()?

[rjbearcan]

In Perl, the get() function tries to get info from a URL...is there a similar function in PHP?

Thanks a lot.

[a1call]

H rjbearcan,
This might help:
[ca.php.net...]

$_GET['any-text']

would contain
"the-text"

if URL is:

http://example.com/?any-text=the-text

[JeffSela]

Or do you mean the LWP 'get' function, for issuing an HTTP GET request to download a page? In Perl I've used this sort of thing:

use LWP::Simple;
my $result = get("http://example.com/");
if (defined $result) {
  # It worked, the content of the page is in $result.
  print $result;
}
else {
  print "Error with request.\n";
}

I don't know of a way that's as simple as that in PHP, but you can use the Curl library to do that sort of thing. The php.net docs for that are here, with some examples:

[php.net ]

Although by default it just dumps the downloaded data onto your output. You can redirect it to a file, and there must be a way to download it into a variable. Haven't tried that yet though.

[directrix]

In curl, to download into a variable, set the returntransfer option prior to the exec. For example:

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Cache-Control: no-cache', 'Host: www.example.com', 'Connection: close'));
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Hungry spider');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$lines = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

[rjbearcan]

Sorry for being late but thanks for the help.