How to collect info from another page?

[autogun]

Howdy guys, whats happenin'?

I gotta tell you Im totally new to php, knows basically nothing xD.
... Alright, to the question,
What is the best way to collect some* information from a webpage and have it showen on my page?

Thats the page I want to grab some info from: http://newcapital.combats.com/inf.pl?login=Freakazoid&short=1

• Notice please, I wrote some, what means I dont want all the page to be copied, I want just a few words/numbers.

[thorpe]

you'll want to look at the fopen function. then maybe use explode to bust the returned string into smaller pieces.

shouldn't be too difficult from there.

[autogun]

Ok, took me some time but somehow I've managed to make it work (told ya, i know pretty much nothing..).

<?php
$charinfo = fopen("http://newcapital.combats.com/inf.pl?login=Freakazoid&short=1", "r");
while (!feof($charinfo)) {
   $buffer = fgets($charinfo, 4096);
   echo $buffer;
}

$info  = "$buffer";
$pieces = explode(" ", $info);
echo $pieces[0];
echo $pieces[1];

fclose($charinfo);

?>

So what this basically does is collecting everything from: http://newcapital.combats.com/inf.pl?login=Freakazoid&short=1 and holds it in $buffer (echo $buffer will be removed later).

I've also used the explode function to Split a string by string but that doesnt do what Im trying to get.

Taken from the link above

login=Freakazoid login_online= id=1114836769 align=0 zodiac=2 blocked= img=0 gamecity=New Capital city gamecity_url=http://newcapital.combats.com room_name= battle_id= level=0 vicrory=10 defeat=4 klan= bossklan=0 rank= name=Freakazoid! sex=0 dex=3 str=4 inst=3 power=5 intel=0 wis=0 spirit=0 birthplace=New Capital city date_registry=30.04.05 18:52 objects=roba1=Shirt\nHealth points: +3\nDurability: 0/10,=,=, HP=33/33

echo $pieces[0]; adds another HP=33/33 at the end
and echo $pieces[1]; does nothing at all.

Could you please explain me how would it be possible to take, lets say "Freakazoid" or, "New Capital city" from this long string?

Thanks in advance!

[autogun]

Hmm, Im sorry for reviving this thread but I still did not manage to work that out..

Maybe take another look at my previous post and try to help me?

[scross]

I figured out what is going on in your thing...there aren't any spaces there are newlines which I can't figure out to explode like you explode spaces. To see what I mean go on your link and click on VIEW and then SOURCE

[autogun]

This is how I solved everything, dunno if this is the right way but its working meanwhile 🙂

<?php
$page = file_get_contents("http://newcapital.combats.com/inf.pl?login=Freakazoid&short=1")
or DIE("Failed to fetch site\n");
$lines = explode("\n", $page);
for ($i=1; $i<=1; $i++) {
echo substr($lines{0}, 6);
echo substr($lines{7}, 9);
}
?>

Thanks for you help guys.

[scross]

Well just as a help here is my code:

<?php
$charinfo = fopen("http://newcapital.combats.com/inf.pl?login=Freakazoid&short=1", "r"); 
$buffer="";
while (!feof($charinfo)) { 
   $buffer .= fgets($charinfo, 1024);
}
$info  = $buffer;
$info = nl2br($info);
echo $info;
echo "<br><br>Now Split It Up:<br><br>";
$pieces = explode("<br />", $info);
$count=count($pieces)-1;

for($i=0; $i<$count; $i++){

$array=explode("=", $pieces[$i]);
echo $array[0];
echo "<br>".$array[1];
echo "<br><br>";

}

fclose($charinfo); 

?>