Cutting text from remote HTML

gobbles

Hey All.

Sorry to keep buggin ... But is there any way of cutting a certain bit of text out of a remote HTML page.

What i want is to cut just 3 words out of a remote HTML page.

This is what i have so far ... It doesnt cut the code .. It just outputs the first 9 lines of code.

$arrFile = file('http://www.remote.com/remote.html');
for($i = 0; $i < 9; $i++)
echo $arrFile[$i] . "<br>\n";

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as im stuckkkkk ...

rIkLuNd

What kind of text is it that you want to cut out? Are the text inside some tags or what?

gobbles

<font face="Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFF00">Latest Price List:<br>Last Change: 14 April 2003 10.00amEST </font>

The bit that i want cut is the "Latest price list: Last change: 14 April 2003 10.00amEST"

rIkLuNd

I'm new to regular expressions so this might not work!

<?php

$File = "http://www.remote.com/remote.html";
$Open = fopen( $File , 'r' );
$Content = fread( $Open , filesize( $File ) );
$Close = fclose( $Open );

preg_match( "#Latest[\\s]*Price[\\s]*List:[\\s]*<br>[\\s]*Last[\\s]*Change:[\\s]*([a-zA-Z0-9\\.\\s]+)[\\s]*#" , $Content , $Matches );

echo "<pre>";
print_r( $Matches );
echo "</pre>";

?>

gobbles

Well at least im getting a warning ... Its better than nothing hehehe ... Dont know what it means though ... Any thoughts?

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: Stat failed for http://www.remote.com/remote.html (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/var/pricelist.php on line 19

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gobbles

This is line 19 of the code

$Content = fread( $Open , filesize( $File ) );

rIkLuNd

Well, you have to change the name of the file to the file you want to get the data from... 😉

gobbles

Yeh ... I have done that ... For security reasons i can post the entire code for the remote HTML.

But i have changed the filenames

Weedpacket

You can't call [man]filesize[/man] on a remote file ... you'll have to read it in some other way (file(), or fopen()/fread()).

gobbles

Ahhh ... Ok.

Weedpacket ... would u know how i could do it so that it will work ... I've been racking my brains for hours ... and im buggered ... Thanks.

Weedpacket

Like this?

gobbles

Thats looking better ... Thanks champ.

Now i just have to figure out what the hell it means hehehe