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[codegirl]

Hi
I was searching youtube and can' find a word that discribe getting information from a website. The only thing I found was http request. All I want to do is access my forum account without going to the website. Anyone know what this is? Is this an advance php thing I must learn before heading to that coding area?

[Orjan]

There are several ways of getting information from another website to the present one, but all of them requires the server settings to be allowing this, many smaller webhostings don't allow it. get_file_contents() can fetch another webpage, curl can as well. get_file_contents is pretty easy and stright forward, but it doesn't have much of settings and can't handle all situations. Curl is trickier to set up, but instead, it can handle sessions, multiple accesses at once and many other things as logins and stuff to the other webpage. All depends on what you want to do and how you want it done and why.