Getting something from another website using a PHP function?

brianb

hello,

I got my code going to another website and reading the page into my variable, but now I need to know....

How would I do something as simple as this:

Pull the info in between this HTML tags:
Ratio(s):

...And these HTML tags:

For instance...

It looks like this in the page:

Ratio(s): THE STUFF I WANT IS HERE

Now, the HTML tag patterns you see above aren't ANYWHERE else on that page so it should be easy to scrpae right?

Any help/coding examples are appreciated!

Thanks!

Tyris

well.. my php code is usually pretty dodgy... but something like this:

load the page into a variable (implode it if its an array, or go thru it line my line using a loop)
then:
$start = str_pos($variable, "Ratio(s): ");
$end = str_pos($variable, " ");
if($start && $end) {
$yourcontent = substr($variable, $start + 17, $end - $start - 17);
}

the + 17 to get the content which starts 17 characters after that bit of code begins, and the $end - $start - 17 to get how long the content you want is (do a bit of algebra).

I'm assuming the content spans multiple lines.. so if your method of getting the html page into a variable creates an array, you should use $variable = implode("", $array); or something (cant quite remember)...

not entirely sure if that'll work... but it should... so hope it helps ^_

DoD

$myfile = implode(file("http://www.myfile.com/file.txt")); will open it for you.

You will have a problem is your PHP is less than 4.3.0