File open url

I’m building a script to grab text and content from a html. The content gets rebuilt into an XML to give to Flash.

I’ve got a basic version running using this [url=http://planet.keks.com/about/index.php]xml2html parser[/url]. I just use Flash to parse the garbage that gets returned from;

[url]http://www.robotacid.com/assets/toxml.php[/url]

eg:

[url]http://www.robotacid.com/assets/toxml.php?url=http://www.robotacid.com/splash.html[/url]

But I would rather be building an XML that Flash can read without getting Flash to do all the hard work (ie: CDATA tags, image files as separate nodes, etc.), but I don’t know how to open a remote file for reading. The following code doesn’t work:

[code]
$url = $_GET[‘url’];
$fp = fopen($url, ‘r’) or die(“failed to open html”);
$fileString = fread($fp, filesize($url));
fclose($fp);
[/code]

I get a no such file or directory.

The XML parser seems to able to read from any address, but I can’t isolate the commands responsible. Can anyone help me please?

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