Retrieving Line(s) of a remote website?

FoxhoundX

Okay,

What I want to do, is have the user type in a term, it will search a certain off-host site, get the source, and find a certain line in it. For example, for simplicity, say I wanted a retrieve eBay bid script.

User would type in the item number, it would open the page, and look for:

<font face="Arial" size="2">
								Current bid:
								</font>
</td>
<td width="100%">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>C $910.01

From there, it would extract the actual price.

Is there any way to actually do this? 😉

tekky

www.php.net/file

FoxhoundX

Hmm, seems easy enough.

How would I go about pulling just the line(s) out that I want though? I would use Substr(); But due to the ads, the place that it would be varies, because of the different lengths for filenames.

Thanks for the quick response.

tekky

loop through the array, doing a strstr on each line for a portion of what you want (preferably the beginning) and then use strpos to find it..... and substr to grab it....

thats one way... the rest is up to you 🙂