How to copy the article from wiki using php

[shariefbe]

Hi,
I just want to copy the content from Wikipedia. Daily i want to do it. But this should be done automatically. can anyone tel me how to do this in php? is there any function to copy the content of any article?

[zombykillah]

You will need a little more ...
like:
fopen
fread / fget
str_replace
stristr
strip_tags

And another Tip:
"\n" will produce a new line.

A example would be:

 $page = fopen("http://blabla.net?info=2wq", "r");
$echo = false;
$start=explode("\n", "Headline1
Headline2
Headline3");
$stop[] = "</h4>";
while (($line = fget($page))!=""){
   if ($echo) foreach ($stop as $search) 
    if (stristr($line, $search) != false) {
     $echo = false;
    }
   if (!$echo) foreach ($start as $search) 
    if (stristr($line, $search) != false) {
     $echo = true;
    }
 if ($echo) {
   $line = str_replace("<br>", "\n", $line);  //<br> marks a newline
       // ... other replacements ... of html tags
   $line = str_replace("</td>", "\t", $line);  //</td> marks end of cell in table
   $line = str_replace("</tr>", "\n", $line);  // </tr> marks end of row in table
   $line = strip_tags($line);
   echo $line;
 }
}
fclose($page); 
  

you would write the info like that into a file:

php example.php > filename.txt 2>/dev/null

an example on howto run this in time intervals would be a crontab entry

Hope that works ... haven't tried ...