I have a PHP page that scrapes the content of a remote ASP page, however, that ASP page on occasion delivers unwanted popup ads with embedded Javascript objects that inflict some nasty damage to my innocent PHP page.
I tried simple pattern matching to get rid of them, to no avail:
$fileID = fopen("http://www3.brinkster.com/soa/val/event/display.asp?eventUserID=" . $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["eventUserID"], 'r') or die('Could not open calendar at this time');
$stuff = fread($fileID, 1000000);
$stuff = preg_replace('/<!-- BEGIN text generated by server\. PLEASE REMOVE -->.+<!-- END text generated by server\. PLEASE REMOVE -->/i', '', $stuff);
fclose($fileID);
echo $stuff;
Anyone else out there know what I must do?
Thanx
Phil
