PHP command to query a URL

Hi,

Does anyone know of a command in PHP (version 4.2.3) that can pull
back the contents from a URL? E.g.

<?php
$remote_HTML = ServerSideGetURL("http://www.noddy.com/");
?>

Is there anything like this? Anyone know?
Many thanks, Michela.

Check out the curl extension (http://php.net/curl). You can also use file
wrappers; for instance, $content = file_get_contents($url);

HTH,
Pete.

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"michela rossi" <michela_rossi66@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1ed550fd.0308120900.61edbfb5@posting.google.c om...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a command in PHP (version 4.2.3) that can pull
> back the contents from a URL? E.g.
>
> <?php
> $remote_HTML = ServerSideGetURL("http://www.noddy.com/");
> ?>
>
> Is there anything like this? Anyone know?
> Many thanks, Michela.