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Plug-in PHP: 100 Power Solutions By Robin Nixon (McGraw Hill 2010, ISBN 978-0071666596) Home | About | Buy It  |
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Chapter 10: Plug-in 72 - Curl Get ContentsSome websites don't like to be accessed by anything other than a web browser, which can make it difficult to fetch data from them with a PHP program using a function such as file_get_contents(). Such sites generally block your program by checking for a User Agent string. Therefore, to access these sites it is necessary to simulate being a browser using a plug-in such as this one. |
