Taking a small section out of another website

[Senate]

Is there a way I can include, for example, and index file from another website, and just extract a small section from that page?

Just say I have:

Hi,
welcome to my site
how are you?

Is there a command to pull out the "welcome to my site" by defining what's before and after it, and extracting what's in the middle?

Am I even making any sense? 😛

Thanks.

[nemonoman]

$url="http://www.website.com/somepage.htm";
$file = fopen ($url, "r");
if ($file) {
$lines_array = file($url);
$lines_string = implode('', $lines_array);
//  use string functions to find and display the bits you want --example:
$my25charstring=substr($lines_string, 25, 50);
echo "Hi <BR>$my25charstring<BR>how are you?";
}
else {echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.<br>\n"; }

[Senate]

Thanks, but what if I don't know the number of characters before the part I want, or exactly how long the part I want is?

I know I could use strstr() to grab from a certain part onwards, but how do I get it to stop at a second variable?

Example..

Live news feed on a website.. it has the heading "Newsfeed:" and at the end has "..more news click here".. in between it is a bunch of news items that are different lengths and change all the time.

How would I grab those items?

[nemonoman]

well, if you're confident about the consistency of the feed:

$newsfeedpos=strpos($bigstring, "Newsfeed");

$mystring=substr($bigstring, $newsfeedpos);

$morenewspos=strpos($mystring, "more news click here");

$mystring=substr($mystring,0,$morenewspos);

Of course, if you think about it, you could combine all that code into one statement, couldn't you?

Or you could use preg_replace and capture just the text you want, but that would take 2 statements.

[Senate]

Thanks heaps mate, you rock 🙂