content grabbing

scrupul0us

Im trying to grab some content off another website that sits between two comment tags... is this possible?

Example(ficticious):

www.xyz.com/table.html

code:

<--begin comment tag-->
table code
<--end comment tag-->

and i wanna return the table code

ideas?

planetsim

Yes its possible there have been many similar posts and one not too long ago (im not sure on the link to it but a search would go well) that had a solution or start to one.

scrupul0us

welli found some code but it int working:

<?
$url = "http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.az@mm.html";

$file = fopen($url, 'r');

if($file) 
{
	while (!feof($file))
	{
		$line = fgets($file, 1024);
		# you can effectively get any value from a webpage if you know
		# the pattern surrounding the value u want
		if (eregi('<body>(.*)</body>', $line, $out))
		{
			$content = $out[1];
			break;
		}
	}
	//empty($content) ? print '' : print $content;
	echo rawurldecode($content);

fclose($file);

}
else
{
	echo "Cannot find what u looking for sorry";
}
?>

rehfeld

the reason that doesnt work is because it check 1 line at a time. its unlikely you will find both body tags on the same line.

try this

<?
$url = "http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.az@mm.html";

$content = file_get_contents($url);

preg_match'#<body>(.*?)</body>#i', $content, $matches);

print_r($matches);