How do I get text from a website using PHP?

Question

So, I\'m working on a PHP script, and part of it needs to be able to query a website, then get text from it.

First off, I need to be able to query a certain website

Answer 1

Can this be done by getting all of the content from the webpage utilizing methods already listed above, and then using regex to remove all characters between open and closed brackets?

A page that looks like this:

stuff in here

Would then become this after regex:

h1 { font-style:... }stuff in here

And because we want to remove all of the code in between various tags such as the [style] tag, we could then first use regex to remove all characters between [style and /style] so that we are just left with:

stuff in here

Would this work then? Please reply if you think it would or if you foresee errors as I would like to create a tool with this parsing.