How Can I Extract Information From An Outside Web Page

[DeeKay]

What I want to do is to extract or turn the information stored in a page like this, to a PHP value. Something simple like this:

$info=http://theURLabove.com/page

Problem is I've no idea where to start. I tried the fopen() method, but the hosting service apparently disabled this function. I believe it's manageable with AJAX (seeing as JScript is less limited), but I'd like to try it in PHP first, especially if it's simpler.

[Wander]

u cant do it with ajax, because browsers limit the access with ajax till the same domain, for security reasonsyou can try file_get_contents, but i think ur host has blocked that one as well, u can also try using cURL, if that is blocked too i dont think theres an easy way, or any way at all, so the only solution would be switching to another host

[jeffman]

Try this way:

$info = file_get_contents('http://theURLabove.com/page')

[DeeKay]

Both of the methods are disabled as well. I guess I'll just use Javascript to get and format the content instead (no AJAX involved, I got a bit confused there). Thanks for the help in any case.