Getting resulting data from website query - php

Question

I need to get the resulting data from a website query. for example
http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?query=organism:9606+AND+gene:AEBP1+AND+reviewed:yes&sort=score&format=tab&columns=entry%20name
resulting page shows
Entry name
AEBP1_HUMAN
I need the result, in this case "AEBP1_HUMAN" to be display on my website. Confused how to get it. Thanks

Answer 1

The goal is, that you can read the content of any url like a file, because php supports wrappers for variety of protocols.
First example uses function file that read entire content and split it by lines into an array.
<?php
$content = file($url);
echo $content[1];
?>
In the second example you get the whole content as a string, so you have to split it with explode function by line endings.
<?php
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$lines = explode("\n", $content);
echo $lines[1];
?>
Third example uses standard file open in combination with function fgets that read the content line by line.
<?php
$fp = fopen($url);
$fp = fopen($url, 'r');
$line = fgets($fp);
$line = fgets($fp);
echo $line;
?>
The last example shows usage of curl. Don't forget to use right options.
<?php
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
$lines = explode("\n", $content);
echo $lines[1];
?>
Sometimes you may experience problems on public hosting servers, where reading remote content is blocked.