I am looking for a solution to "read" an incoming HTML page without it viewing in the browser. I want to then strip the information from it and display it with my own format.

I have subscribed to a quoting engine for life insurance but I would like to do some manipulation with the way the data is used. I have permission from the software provider however, I don't know how yet.

Basically a quote is submitted to this server (ie. www.quoteit.com/blahblah), then his server manipulates it but at that point I want it displayed on my server instead of his.

Can someone tell me how to do this.. Or at least where I should start?

I don't know exactly what you mean, but I suppose you'd want to parse it. I don't think there is a HTML parser in PHP, nor SGML, but there is XML parsing functionality. See http://php.linux.hr/manual/en/ref.xml.php if you're interested.

If you just want to read it, you could simply use file_get_contents() or a similar function. See http://php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php for general information about file handling in php.