Warcraft 3 Stats Retriever

[Edd]

Hi i am a complete and utter n00b when it comes to php and i seriously need some pushing and prodding in the right direction.

I am currently looking at retrieving my warcraft 3 stats from blizzards website and displaying them on my own page.

I have looked through the forums and managed to find out how to open the webpage remotely and display its html content. I have also looked and seen a lot of people mention using fgets and various other things to isolate the data that i require.

The html that i am wanting to get my data from can be viewed at Here in HTML form ( from the script i have bashed together to display the page ) and Here in their original form on blizzards website

The specific data i want to get from the Blizzard / Battle.net webpage is the Wins and Losses from all the races and the total win / loss and percentage.

I am using

<?php
$url = "http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/war3-player-profile.aspx?Gateway=Northrend&PlayerName=Peasant-Power"; 
$source = show_source($url); 
echo $sstr; 
?> 

That is what i am using to display the HTML in the first link, but what i can't understand is what / how i can get the data i want from all of that html, I have tried using the strip_tags but cannot seem to get it to work and am really struggling to get to grips with the expressions and which ones i need and how to use them.

I am not asking anyone to do this for me although i haven't got time to burn i really really wanna do ths myself but any suggestions in regards to the method and commands i need to use for this would really be appreciated.

Kindest Regards

Edd

[ edited to correct typos - its 4:16am and i'm off to bed 🙁 ]

[Moonglobe]

my god taht page is so complex i cant even bigin to think how you're going to do this................you're going to have to pour over the source to find some patterns you can use to extract the data...........

[catgurl_ashley]

looks like ALOT of work for a noob :p

[clandestine555]

to be quite honest... your best bet would be to beg blizzard to start outputting a xml file that's linkable heh, i looked at the source and it'd be almost hopeless to get it all perfectly working the way you want. however you could simply use an IFRAME and capture the entire page in it to be included into your website.

[Edd]

Thanks for the replies, i think i'm going to start digging a bit deeper into php and put this on the back burner until i have a bit more knowledge and will be able to understand entirely what i am doing.

Regards

Edd