Question on pulling data from third party URL

[rednax]

I've been trying to pull movie times off Cinemark.com's site. So far, I've been able to come up with this messy code to pull out a part of the page:

<?php

$date = date("m/d/y");
$url = 'http://www.cinemark.com/printer_friendly.asp?theater_id=335&show_date=' . $date . '';	
$fp = fopen($url, "r") or die("Could not open $url");	
$str = fread($fp, 999999);

eregi("(<b><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">)(.*)(</font>)",$str,$output_array);

  echo $output_array[0];

fclose($fp);

?>

My question though: any suggestions on how I could pull the movie titles, times etc more cleanly (get rid of their HTML) so that I could display them in my own table?

Thank you

• rednax

[matt_4013]

You can't just get the raw data unless you have access to their database. What you could do though is if you know the format that it is sent back in, is strip all the extra crap, like html for example, using replace functions (str_replace, eregi_replace), then format the data how you want it, eg, csv, ttf 🙂