I would like to browse to a url eg http://mysite.com/index.html and dump the content of that site in a variable eg $htmlDump?

You will need to ensure that you have permission to do this from the site owner, because effectively you are indexing an entire web page by doing this. Remember that you will also be causing a load on a site, so you should do this on your site only, or if you will be using this to store/retrieve information from other websites you must ask their permission before doing so.

Anyhow, the PHP for this is very simple - you can just use the file_get_contents function like this:


<?php



$blah = file_get_contents("the-url-goes-here");



//$blah now contains the content of that web page



?>

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