The power of file_get_contents

With recent PHP versions, using file_get_contents() is a very efficient method to get and parse stuff from the web
<br /> $vHeaders = “User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5\r\n”;<br /> $vHeaders .= “Accept-language: en\r\n”;<br /> $vHeaders .= “Cookie: PHPSESSID=”.$vSomeID.”\r\n”;</p> <p>$vOpts = array(‘http’=><br /> array(‘method’=>”GET”,’header’=>$vHeaders)<br /> );<br /> $vContext = stream_context_create($opts);<br /> $vURL = ‘https://private.example.com’;<br /> $vPage = file_get_contents($vURL,FALSE,$vContext);<br />
You could set headers like custom user-agent string, cookie variables, just like a “real” browser.