clipping an included file

[Anon]

i was wondering if it was possible to include an html file, and cut out the first lines of html and the last couple of lines. i'm including a file from a friend's web page and i want to only show a couple of lines of the page, and i want it to be dynamic (of course). is there a way to do this?

[thepriest]

give this a burl (it may or may not help)

$lines=file($url); //$url is the url to retrieve/or file name
// $lines is an array with its elements equal to each line
// of the page $url

then just loop from line 5 through to count-5

hope it helps