return a html retrieved from web server in php

To retrieve HTML from a web server in PHP, you can use the cURL library which allows you to make HTTP requests and get the response. Here's an example function that uses cURL to retrieve the HTML from a URL and return it:

main.php
function getHtmlFromUrl($url) {
  // Initialize cURL
  $curl = curl_init();

  // Set options for the cURL request
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);  // Set the URL
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  // Return the response as a string
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);  // Follow HTTP redirects
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 5);  // Maximum number of redirects to follow
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);  // Connect timeout in seconds
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);  // Timeout in seconds

  // Execute the cURL request and get the response
  $response = curl_exec($curl);

  // Check for cURL errors
  if (curl_errno($curl)) {
    echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($curl);
    $response = '';
  }

  // Close the cURL session
  curl_close($curl);

  // Return the response as HTML
  return $response;
}
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You can call this function with a URL to get the HTML as a string:

main.php
$html = getHtmlFromUrl('https://www.example.com');
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Note that this function does not do any parsing or manipulation of the HTML, it simply retrieves it from the URL. You may want to use a DOM parser like PHP's DOMDocument class to extract specific elements or data from the HTML.

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