PHP searching HTML for an increasing number

[Anon]

I'm new to PHP, so please bear with me if there is a simple explanation for this.

Baisically, I'm trying to search a fantasy baseball html page for a number that is updated daily. This number is ALWAYS associated with some particular text. For example: SWP: 55555.

I have been successful in changing a variable from 0 to 1 if the text and number were found on the page, but this only works when the number is "hard coded". How can I get a script to check for an increasing number starting from 0. In other words, how can I get the script to check for SWP: 1, then SWP: 2, then SWP: 3, etc. until it finds the one that exists?

This is the code I'm using with VERY limited success:

<?
$i = 0;
$found = 0;
$url = "http://baseball.smallworld.com/midseason/main/manager_other.html?user_id=91857";
$the_page = fopen($url, "r");

Function Search ()
{global $the_page, $url, $search_criteria, $found;

while(!feof($the_page))
{

$each_line = fgetss($the_page, 255);
if(eregi($search_criteria, $each_line, $results))
{$found = 1;}
}}

while($found == 0)
{
$i++;
$search_criteria = "SWP: $i";
Search ();
}

print("$search_criteria");
?>

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Anon]

I would try doing it this way,

$url = "http://baseball.smallworld.com/midseason/main/manager_other.html?user_id=91857";
$file = file($file);
for ($i = 0; $i<count($file); $i++) {
if (strstr($file[$i], "SWP:")) {
$myline = $file[$i];
break;
}
else {
$i++;
}
}

echo $myline;

that should output: SWP: 3243243
3243243 = what every number is next to SWP:

[Anon]

Gerrit,

I'm getting better results with your code, but I'm still having some problems.

The code you provide outputs:

"Division: 3SWP: 3403SWD Remaining: 600,000 SWDWorld : 13122 out of 91940Pitcher Trades: 3Roster Value: 50,710,000 SWD"

Somehow, I need to be able to strip these numbers out to be able to use them.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Kevin

[Anon]

well you can use the ereg function to test for a pattern in the string, but other than that, i'm not sure, you could also split the string into an array and then test each element of the array with the ereg function... -gerrit