Downloading a remote page

Downloading a page from the remote server

To download a page from a remote server, the simplest and most efficient way is to use the PEAR class HTTP_Request from the HTTP/Request.php package.

<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request.php';
$url = 'http://platon.sk/';
$req =& new HTTP_Request($url);
if (PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) {
    die('error downloading the page');
}
$content = $req->getResponseBody();
?>

For more options and features, see the documentation.