PHP Remote Files Primer Tutorial
If your background is in C programming (and the use of fopen function), you might be amazed at PHP’s fopen function’s talents at opening URLs, as well as “desktop” files we (programming citizens of senior years “shell we say”) might have more associated with “fopen thoughts”.
Combine this PHP fopen URL talent with preg_match function talent, and you’ve got a pretty simple paradigm to do pretty sophisticated searches through webpage contents for data of interest.
And so, stumbling upon this excellent advice we were able to tailor a first draft into a second draft (so far non-interactive) usage of PHP fopen URL web application you could try for yourself playing around with …
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