preg_match problem

MrLister

$fp = fsockopen ($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
    echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
} else {
    fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $domain\r\n\r\n");
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $file = fgets ($fp,128000);

  preg_match('/\<b>Description: (.*)/im',$file,$title);
  $description = $title[1];

  echo $description;

}
fclose ($fp);
}

If I do

echo $file;

I'll get the full source code of the page. If I do echo $description i only get </br> which was at the end of Description: how come it won't let me select multiple lines or for example everything after Description. I also tried

preg_match('/<b>Description: (.*)</tabe/im',$file,$title);

which is a few lines down but that didn't work either and just gave me a blank. Help is greatly appriciated. Thank you

Weedpacket

Because without the "s" modifier switch, . doesn't match newline characters. Try tacking that on the end of the regexp and see what happens.

MrLister

$fp = fsockopen ($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
    echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
} else {
    fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $domain\r\n\r\n");
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $file = fgets ($fp,128000);

  preg_match('/\<b>Description: (.*)/ims',$file,$title);
  $description = $title[1];

  echo $description;

}
fclose ($fp);
}

I just tried it with s and it still only goes to the end of that line...

Weedpacket

...er, one reason I can see is that when the preg_match() is run, then that's as far as fgets() has read - it stops reading at newlines. Maybe you want fread(), which doesn't (I'm guessing that from the way you allocate such a big buffer (128 thousand bytes) to read the file into).

MrLister

I thoguht that too but then I did echo $file and it showed everyting it's supposed to so I know it's got everything in that variable.