Fetching a URL with file_get_contents()

 
<?php
$page = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/robots.txt');
?>

1.	Check net speed by loading a file
2.	Checking for an error from file_get_contents()
3.	Reading a file into a string
4.	file_get_contents.php
5.	file_put_contents( ) writes to a file with the equivalent of fopen( ), fwrite( ), and fclose( ) all in one function, just like file_get_contents( ).
6.	Use file_get_contents with a URL
7.	Retrieving a protected page
8.	Retrieving a remote page with file_get_contents()

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