Regular Expression question...

[mosdef]

First wanted to say that PHPBuilder seems like an amazing site to me so far. Until a couple weeks ago I had no idea what PHP was. I recently bought a book and have already learned a decent amount, and am excited by how much PHP has to offer.

Anyway, here's my question:

I want to get a page's HTML into a string, and then parse the string and return the first expression in standard US dollar form...

$(one or more digits).(2 digits)

How do I go about doing this with, let's say, this page?

Thanks!

(Please don't yell at me if I made a mistake in posting this!)

[orangehairedboy]

First of all, this won't work, because the first instance of a $ is for the Used price. Just because it's after the real price on the page, doesn't mean that it's after the real price in the html code.

Secondly, it's apparent to me that they do this on purpose...to stop what you are trying to do. What would happen if Amazon outputted each page differently or happened to include a price somewhere else? It would throw your program off.

I would recommend that if you want to make money by linking to products that Amazon sells, become an Amazon.com Associate at http://associates.amazon.com/exec/panama/associates/ntg/browse/-/567864/.

Lewis

[mosdef]

😕... I posted that link just as an example. The purpose of my post wasn't to make money, it was to learn PHP. Again... 😕