Ok, lets say we open up the webpage and save the contents to the variable $web_page. All we need to do it match that string and pull out that number, correct? Example:
preg_match("/During this x-day reporting period a total of ([0-9]*) persons visited/", $web_page, $matches);
I'm not sure what x-day should actually say, so this is assuming we know. If the string in the page actually read:
During this x-day reporting period a total of 232 persons visited.
Then from the preg_match command, $matches[1] would equal 232.
The trick is with the string ([0-9]). The parens tell preg_match to pull out that string, and the [0-9] says to pull out any numbers. Hope that helps!
Chris King
