Hi,
Is there anyway of typing a URL into a form text box and then the output page echos the content of that URL in your page?
In the same way you can use file_get_contents.
Thank you
Yes, you can do just like this:
form.html[code]
URL:
result.php[php]<?php
$url = $_POST[“url”];
echo file_get_contents($url);
?>[/php]
Thanks PHP coder for such a quick response.
That works perfectly, however I have some preg_replace arrays after that piece of form output code.
At the moment it gets the content from the website but it ignores all of my replace functions.
Would it be a case of re-ordering things a bit?
Thank you
Amy, do you apply preg_replace to url received from html form, or to page content?
I’m not entirely sure I understand; my index page has a form with the URL field in, then the output displays the content of whichever URL is typed in. The preg_replace is applied to that output page.
Here is a shortened version of my code:
<?php $string = $_POST["url"]; echo file_get_contents($string); $patterns[0] = '/\bwoman\b/i'; $patterns[1] = '/\bman\b/i'; $patterns[2] = '/\bintwoman\b/i'; $patterns[3] = '/\bintman\b/i'; $replacements[0] = 'intwoman'; $replacements[1] = 'intman'; $replacements[2] = 'man'; $replacements[3] = 'woman'; echo preg_replace('$1', $patterns, $replacements, $string); ?>Thank you
Amendment to last post:
Sorry, the code had a mistake, it should read:
<?php $string = $_POST["url"]; echo file_get_contents($string); $patterns[0] = '/\bwoman\b/i'; $patterns[1] = '/\bman\b/i'; $patterns[2] = '/\bintwoman\b/i'; $patterns[3] = '/\bintman\b/i'; $replacements[0] = 'intwoman'; $replacements[1] = 'intman'; $replacements[2] = 'man'; $replacements[3] = 'woman'; echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string); ?>And the form code is as you specified:
URL:Cheers
Instead of echo’ing page content, you need to assign it to a $string valuable so that preg_replace apply to this content:
[php]$string = $_POST[“url”];
$string = file_get_contents($string);[/php]
I meant $string variable 
Ah, brilliant, thanks so much.
Works perfectly now!
I don’t suppose there is anyway of retaining the capitalisation on the words that are replaced? I’ve got it so the terms are not case sensitive by using the /i modifier.
Just thought i’d check if this was possible or not.
Thanks again