By bomarmonk on

I have been trying to wrap a catalog search page on a different server within a Drupal node. I've tried using PHP in a node to attempt this:

$site = 'http://www.wrappedsite.com';
print $site;

or

$site = fopen ("http://fake.IP.14.169/", "r");
print $site;

Neither of these attempts worked. I'm sure I can do something like this. Any ideas, suggestions, or code would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again for any help!

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somes commented

I might be wrong but what your trying to do isnt going to work at all, if only every thing in life was that simple

you'd better google "+web+fetching"+PHP
there are loads of scripts out there that will do that kind of thing for you
some even store the data in a database that can be then called from within your drupal site.

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kbahey commented

I have a code snippet that will work, I tried posting it, but Drupal's filter does not allow it saying suspicious input.

Contact me at the sites below and I will email it to you.

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kbahey commented

Here is my content wrapping code snippet.

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chx commented 

print file_get_contents('http://www.wrappedsite.com');

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kbahey commented

All the snippets provided need to do other things

For example, img and relative href tags must be rewritten to put the appropriate absolute path so it would work.

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bomarmonk commented

Thanks for the help, but I need something a bit more robust. The page I'm trying to frame into Drupal is a library catalog that runs on its own database and off of its own server. While the aforementioned scripts pull up the basic html, images are not rendered. Also, the data entered into a search is not passed back to library catalog's server. I guess my problem is a bit more complex... darn it.

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kbahey commented

Read up on PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) on php.net, and then substitute the img src you read with $base_url of your own site.

You need to do the same for the form, it has to point to their server not yours.

Yes, it is more complex that it looks initially ...

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jivyb commented

I'm very interested in this and I wondered if anyone has gotten it to work yet--I tried several options posted here and the css of the imported page seems to get mixed with my theme's css. Otherwise it worked ok but I can't use it because of the css thing.

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bomarmonk commented

This isn't high on my list of priorities, but it would be great if someone could share a successful bit of code that allows an external database/web interface to run within a node. Mambo does this with an i-frame, so it may not be that tricky

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bomarmonk commented

I would reproduce the code here, but it is detected as suspicious. But simply using an i-frame with the IP address of the server will get this to work. Don't wrap the iframe in any kind of php open or close tags (that was my mistake).

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pmbd commented

Maybe others already know this, but I looked here trying to find out how to do this too, and finally came across this that works very well. I thought I'd post it in case anyone else is looking, because I couldn't find it on this site.

<iframe src="http://page-to-be-wrapped" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Just create a Page with the above HTML code and link to it. Change the parameters as needed.

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aac commented

bookmarking!!

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