HTTP Request

Hey peoples,

Just a quick one as i dont know where to start, i have a friends website
that returns results and only results on request... so if i go to
www.someplace.com/getstuff.txt

It will return raw text like
(no formatted code like fonts etc)

username=fred
age=20
hobbies=123

My question is, is it possible to request that data from my server in a php
script and then load the lines one by one into a variable?

Thanks if someone could point me in the right direction :)

Thanks upon reply.

"Larcos" <newsgroup@larcos.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> i have a friends website that returns results and only results
> on request... so if i go to www.someplace.com/getstuff.txt
>
> It will return raw text like
> (no formatted code like fonts etc)
>
> username=fred
> age=20
> hobbies=123
>
> My question is, is it possible to request that data from my server in a php
> script and then load the lines one by one into a variable?

Yes. This snippet of code:

$data = file('http://www.someplace.com/getstuff.txt');

will result in $data being an array of three srtings:

key value
0 username=fred
1 age=20
2 hobbies=123

Cheers,
NC