Actually since everything is stored in a variable and then printed out, this should work better:
<?php
$ch = curl_init(); // create cURL handle (ch)
if (!$ch)
{
die('Failed to initialise application.');
}
// set some cURL options
$url = 'http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/';
$ret = curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$ret = curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER,false); //don't want the header information
$ret = curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,true); //follow any redirects
$ret = curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); //collect data
$ret = curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)'); //pretend to be using MS IE6
$ret = curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30); //timeout
// execute
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
if (empty($ret))
{
// some kind of an error happened - to display the error uncomment line below otherwise 'nice error displayed'.
//die(curl_error($ch));
die('Sorry, we are currently unable to obtain the current ntl: service status.');
curl_close($ch); // close cURL handler
}
else
{
curl_close($ch); // close cURL handler
//The table displaying the status is surrounded by a DIV tag - the only DIV tag in the document.
$start = strpos($ret,'<DIV align="center">') + 20; // + 20 so that the DIV tag is removed
$end = strpos($ret,'</DIV>');
$reqlen = $end - $start; //The length of the text required
//get the required text
$status = substr($ret, $start, $reqlen);
//replace relative paths with full paths
$status = str_replace('ServiceDetails.aspx', 'http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/ServiceDetails.aspx', $status);
$status = str_replace('images/', 'http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/images/', $status);
//dump the text
eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] = "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_server') . '";');
}
?>
Then create a new template called 'adv_portal_server' and just add $status in the template.