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I am trying to get the contents of a web page up to the 100th character. However, for some reason the code isn't getting the web page at ALL.

Here's my code:

$link = "http://www.roblox.com/User.aspx?ID=1";
echo file_get_contents($link, NULL, NULL, -1, 100);

The reason I am wanting to do this is to get the title of that web page. I cannot figure out why it won't display. Probably the 3rd argument, which I've tried making an alternative for:

$opts = array('http'=>array('method'=>"GET",'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" ."Cookie: foo=bar\r\n");

Even with the above variable set for the 3rd argument it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

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  • look at the source code.. it's getting the doctype part of your target.
    – tradyblix
    Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 9:14
  • Yeah I noticed, however it won't even give me the doctype element. It's giving me null.
    – Anonymous
    Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 9:15
  • if I assign the file_get_contents part to a variable and var_dump it it's displaying the doctype string. def not null.
    – tradyblix
    Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 9:18

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You can try

$link = "http://www.roblox.com/User.aspx?ID=1";
var_dump(file_get_contents($link, NULL, NULL, 0, 100));

Output

string '



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/' (length=100)
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use this

echo substr(file_get_contents($link),0,100);
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  • That's the thing. I am using this function a lot and trying to reduce bandwidth so it doesn't do me any good. I think I know what's wrong, however.
    – Anonymous
    Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 9:18
  • thanks though... it'd work if I wasn't wanting to use it for bandwidth. +1
    – Anonymous
    Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 9:23

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