Hi, Nibin I wonder what you'd call a <website preview> ... Do you mean a screenshot or the HTML-response from the server, specially prepared (sounds like you want to create a proxy ;))? Bye Simon 2012/2/29 Nibin V M <nibinvm@xxxxxxxxx> > No..what I am trying to write a "website preview" plugin attached to a > control panel.. :) > > since I am a newbie, I don't know how to achieve this without modifying > hosts file ( I am basically a linux sys admin ) :) > > @Martin - I will check it. Since I am a beginner ( of course, just started > to learn PHP today ) I need to start from scratch. If yo could provide some > sample code, it will be great :) > > thanks for your input guys.. > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > ** > > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 19:29 +0100, Matijn Woudt wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Nibin V M <nibinvm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am very new to PHP coding. I am trying to achieve a task via PHP, > > > regarding which I have been googling around for a few days and now > come up > > > with emtpy hands! > > > > > > Ok, what I need to write is a "website preview script". That is I need > to > > > display a website hosted on serverA and pointing elsewhere, from > ServerA ( > > > via curl possibly ). > > > > > > For example: I have configured techsware.in and google.com on ServerA > ( of > > > course google.com pointing to their IP ). I need to display the > contents of > > > google.com "on my server" , if I call http://techsware.in/google.phpwhich > > > has some curl coding in it! Note, what I have is the domain name ( > > > google.com ) and the IP on which it is hosted on serverA to achieve > this. > > > Any way to achieve this? > > > > > > I can achieve this if I put <my IP> google.com in /etc/hosts file ( > its > > > Linux ). But I need to run this script for normal users as well, which > > > won't have super user privileges and thus unable to edit /etc/hosts > file. > > > So I want to specify somewhere in the PHP script that, google.compoints to > > > <my IP>. I can do this with this little script. > > > > > > > How about just doing a str_replace[1]? > > > > - Matijn > > > > [1]http://www.php.net/str_replace > > > > > > Why can't you use an iframe, or are you trying to offer this other > > websites content as if it were on your own site? If so, I would first > check > > to see if you're actually allowed to do that, as that will bring up > quite a > > few copyright issues otherwise, which can be very expensive. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Ash > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards.... > > Nibin. > > http://TechsWare.in >
