Get Data between two strings

DigitalExpl0it

Im trying to grab some data from a web site and there are two strings and in between that is the data I want how can I grab it?

Data here (what I want)

Im never good at preg_match but I think this is what I need to use

$get_days = preg_match_all("|<[^begin loop>]+>(.*)<end loop[^>]+>|U", $buffer);

devinemke

$string = '
blah blah blah
<!-- begin loop -->
Data here (what I want)
<!-- end loop -->
blah blah blah
';

$explode = explode('<!-- begin loop -->', $string);
$explode = explode('<!-- end loop -->', $explode[1]);
echo $explode[0];

sidney

heres a way to do it with out regex

$data='unwanted data<!-- begin loop --> 

Data here (what I want) 

<!-- end loop -->more unwanted data'; 
$thebitiwant=trim(end(explode('<!-- begin loop -->',reset(explode('<!-- end loop -->',$data)))));
echo $thebitiwant;

DigitalExpl0it

thanks for the replys, but they didnt work

devinemke - code didnt out put anything not sure why, I tried explode[0]-[6] nothing

sidney - you code seems to just load the page 🙁

site: http://daemonprojects.com/test/temp.php?zipcode=91737

heres my code so far.

<?
################
# Open Url and fetch the source From Weather.com
################

if ($_REQUEST["zipcode"] == "") {
	$zipcode = "91737";
} else {
	$zipcode = $_REQUEST["zipcode"];
}

$url = "http://www.w3.weather.com/weather/local/".$zipcode."?lswe=".$zipcode."&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared";
$fp = fopen ($url, "r");

$re = "GET .".$url." HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$re .= "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)\r\n";
$re .= "Host: ".$url."\r\n";
#$re .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

fputs($fp, $re);

while (!feof ($fp)) {
    $buffer = fgets($fp, 1000);
	//$get_days = preg_match_all("|<[^begin loop>]+>(.*)<end loop[^>]+>|U", $buffer);
	//$thebitiwant = trim(end(explode('<!-- begin loop -->',reset(explode('<!-- end loop -->',$buffer)))));

$get = strstr($buffer, 'OAS_query =');
$filter = eregi_replace("OAS_query =", "", $get);
$filter = eregi_replace("'", "", $filter);
$filter = eregi_replace(";", "", $filter);
$filter = eregi_replace(" ", "", $filter);
//printf($filter);

// Setup Varibles from string
parse_str($filter);
//echo $get_days."<Br>";
//echo $thebitiwant;
}
	if ($cond == "clear_mostly_sunny") {
		$get_sun = "34.gif";
	} elseif ($cond == "clear_sunny") {
		$get_sun = "32.gif";
	} elseif ($cond == "cloud_mostly") {
		$get_sun = "30.gif";
	} else {
		$get_sun = "11.gif";
	}
?>
<title>Current Weather for <? echo $zipcode;?></title>
<body background="sun/trans.gif" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
From <a href="<? echo $url; ?>">Weather.com</a><br>
<br> 
<table width="232" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#819DBC"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#E3EAF0"> 
            <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="48%" align="center"><img src="<? echo "sun/".$get_sun; ?>"></td>
                <td width="52%" align="center"><? echo $temp; ?> °F</td>
              </tr>
              <tr> 
                <td align="center">UV Index:<br> </td>
                <td align="center"><? echo $uv; ?></td>
              </tr>
              <tr> 
                <td align="center">Dew Point:</td>
                <td align="center"><? echo $dew; ?> °F</td>
              </tr>
              <tr> 
                <td align="center">Humidity:</td>
                <td align="center"><? echo $humid; ?> %</td>
              </tr>
              <tr> 
                <td align="center">Visibility:</td>
                <td align="center"><? echo $cond; ?></td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                <td align="center">Wind</td>
                <td align="center"><? echo $wind; ?> mph</td>
              </tr>
            </table>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>

DigitalExpl0it

the data I want to get is this off weather.com pages

<TR>
<TD WIDTH="15%"><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737>Today</A> Oct 21</TD>
<TD WIDTH="10%"><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/34.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD WIDTH="35%">Mostly Sunny</TD>

<TD WIDTH="25%" ALIGN="CENTER">64°/48°</TD>
<TD WIDTH="15%" ALIGN="CENTER">20 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD CLASS=f2a><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=1>Fri</A> Oct 22</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/32.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a>Sunny</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">70°/50°</TD>

<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">0 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD ><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=2>Sat</A> Oct 23</TD>
<TD ><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/32.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD >Sunny</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">71°/50°</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">10 %</TD>

</TR>

<TR>
<TD CLASS=f2a><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=3>Sun</A> Oct 24</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/34.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a>Mostly Sunny</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">70°/51°</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">10 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD ><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=4>Mon</A> Oct 25</TD>
<TD ><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/34.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD >Mostly Sunny</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">69°/52°</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">10 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD CLASS=f2a><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=5>Tue</A> Oct 26</TD>

<TD CLASS=f2a><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/30.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a>Partly Cloudy</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">64°/50°</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">10 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD ><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=6>Wed</A> Oct 27</TD>
<TD ><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/34.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD >Mostly Sunny</TD>

<TD ALIGN="CENTER">67°/50°</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">20 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD CLASS=f2a><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=7>Thu</A> Oct 28</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/34.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a>Mostly Sunny</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">72°/49°</TD>

<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">20 %</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD ><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=8>Fri</A> Oct 29</TD>
<TD ><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/34.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD >Mostly Sunny</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">74°/49°</TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER">0 %</TD>

</TR>

<TR>
<TD CLASS=f2a><A HREF=/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=91737&dayNum=9>Sat</A> Oct 30</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a><IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/30.gif" WIDTH=31 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a>Partly Cloudy</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">70°/51°</TD>
<TD CLASS=f2a ALIGN="CENTER">20 %</TD>
</TR>

sidney

it works for me using this code

  if (!isset($_REQUEST["zipcode"])) { 
    $zipcode = "91737"; 
} else { 
    $zipcode = $_REQUEST["zipcode"]; 
} 

$url = "http://www.w3.weather.com/weather/local/".$zipcode."?lswe=".$zipcode."&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared"; 
$data=file_get_contents($url);
$thebitiwant=trim(end(explode('<!-- begin loop -->',reset(explode('<!-- end loop -->',$data))))); 
echo $thebitiwant;

DigitalExpl0it

wow dude your the pimp, thanx 🙂