copy content from one website to another

[aaron]

Hi,

I'd like to automatically display content from my friends website on my
website. Is there anyway I can direct php to a URL and have the content of
that page put on my page?

Thanks,
Aaron

[Ruben van Engelenburg]

aaron wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to automatically display content from my friends website on my
> website. Is there anyway I can direct php to a URL and have the content of
> that page put on my page?

I think RSS is what you're looking for. There's RSS feed parsers
available for PHP. Your friend would have to publish his site's contents
as an rss feed.

Regards,
Ruben.

[Colin McKinnon]

Ruben van Engelenburg wrote:

> aaron wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to automatically display content from my friends website on my
>> website. Is there anyway I can direct php to a URL and have the content
>> of that page put on my page?

>
> I think RSS is what you're looking for. There's RSS feed parsers
> available for PHP. Your friend would have to publish his site's contents
> as an rss feed.
>
> Regards,
> Ruben.

....or iframes or frames. You could do redirects but that will take people
off your site. Alternatively you could proxy requests like:

<?php
$path_to_cut='/friends/ruben/';
$therebase='http://rubenserver.com/';
$real_url=str_replace(strtolower($SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$path_to_cut,
$therebase);
print implode('', file($real_url));
?>

but this is a can of worms as you'd need re-writing rules in your server
config to get everything running thru the one script and the above will not
accomodate POST/GET/COOKIES

HTH

C.

[Gekke Gijs uit de Tekenfilm]

"Colin McKinnon" schreef ...

> Ruben van Engelenburg wrote:

> > aaron wrote:

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Or use Snoopy, to fetch/grab parts of your friends website:

[url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/[/url]

Good luck,

Gijs

[Ruben van Engelenburg]

Colin McKinnon wrote:
[snip]

> ...or iframes or frames. You could do redirects but that will take people
> off your site. Alternatively you could proxy requests like:
>
> <?php
> $path_to_cut='/friends/ruben/';
> $therebase='http://rubenserver.com/';

Hey, where did my name come into play? ;)
But seriously I think RSS is the cleanest solution. The advantage of RSS
over something like frames or the solution you offered is that the
website can use its own layout to display the feed-data.

Regards,
Ruben.

[CrashandDie]

Gekke Gijs uit de Tekenfilm wrote:

> "Colin McKinnon" schreef ...
>

>>Ruben van Engelenburg wrote:
>>

>>>aaron wrote:

>
>
> ---- 8< --[cut]-- >8 -----
>
> Or use Snoopy, to fetch/grab parts of your friends website:
>
> [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/[/url]
>
> Good luck,
>
> Gijs
>
>

I would have to agree with Ruben on this one, RSS feeds are quite
helpfull and it's really not a lot of work for your friend to manage.

Best regards,