Hey Gang, I have a script that uses fopen that I'm converting to cUrl so that it's compatible with dreamhost. The script looks for information on a specific line number

$line=fgets($file,222);

basically all the information on line 222 is returned with the fopen script. With cUrl, I don't seem to be able to use fgets... I can't figure out what command I need to use to read information out of a specific line number. Any suggestions, links, information I could use to get started with this? All help would be greatly appreciated.

- mahuti

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Hey Gang, I have a script that uses fopen that I'm converting to cUrl so that it's compatible with dreamhost. The script looks for information on a specific line number

$line=fgets($file,222);

basically all the information on line 222 is returned with the fopen script.

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Use cURL to grab everything, and then use further scripting to access the line you want. The following example should work:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$lines = array();
$lines = explode("\n", $file_contents);
echo $lines[222];
?>

If the line is HTML, you will need to wrap convert the HTML entities to see it displayed:

echo htmlspecialchars($lines[222]);

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Ah, yeah, that's it. Hey, thanks much!

- mahuti