
Data from another source (defined by an url) can be displayed in
your website.
E. g. data from wikipedia or any other webstite.
Also data from a secured website can be added, e. g. proteted by
htaccess - of course only, if you have the login data.
Data can be retrieved by php's standard
file_get_contents()
or via curl
.
Data can be displayed as html or as xml (within textarea).