This function will download the contents of any URL and return it as a string that you can save to a file or database.
It will use curl if it is installed. Otherwise it will use fopen/fread.
function url_reader($url,$referer=null) {
if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
if ($referer) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
else {
$data = '';
$handle = fopen($url,'rb');
while (!feof($handle)) {
$data .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
}
return $data;
}
if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
if ($referer) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
else {
$data = '';
$handle = fopen($url,'rb');
while (!feof($handle)) {
$data .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
}
return $data;
}
