How can HTTP requests be used to retrieve and process external HTML content in PHP?

To retrieve and process external HTML content in PHP, you can use HTTP requests to fetch the content from the external URL. This can be achieved by using functions like file_get_contents() or cURL to make a GET request to the external URL and retrieve the HTML content. Once you have the HTML content, you can then process it as needed in your PHP script. 

<?php
// Retrieve external HTML content using file_get_contents()
$url = 'https://www.example.com';
$html = file_get_contents($url);

// Process the HTML content
// For example, you can use DOMDocument to parse the HTML
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

// Extract specific elements from the HTML content
$titles = $dom->getElementsByTagName('title');
foreach ($titles as $title) {
    echo $title->nodeValue . "<br>";
}
?>

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