help with remoting

fly2279

I'm trying to remote contents from a particular website using bpat1434's guide found here. I can't seem to make it work. Can someone help me with how to do this?

Here is the html when I view the code, what I need is the 'KLGA'.

              <tr>
                <th class="secondaryHeader">Destination</th>
                <td class="smallrow1" nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" style="text-align: left">&nbsp; <span title="New York, NY">LaGuardia</span> [<a href="/live/airport/KLGA">KLGA</a>]</td>
              </tr>

Here is the code from bpat1434's updated code:

<?php

$url = "http://www.weather.com/weather/local/21250";
$handle = fopen($url, "r");
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
fclose($handle);

$temp_pattern = "@<B CLASS=obsTempTextA>([0-9]*)&deg;F</B><BR><B CLASS=obsTextA>Feels Like<BR> ([0-9]*)&deg;F</B>@";

$loc_pattern = "@<H2 CLASS=\"moduleTitleBar\">[\s\n]*<B>Right Now for<\/B><BR>[\s\n]*([a-zA-Z0-9,\(\)\s]*)<BR>@";

// preg_match(pattern, string, returned array)
preg_match($temp_pattern, $contents, $temps);
preg_match($loc_pattern, $contents, $location);

echo 'Currently in '.$location[1].':<br>
    the temperature is <b>'.$temps[1].'</b>°F.<br>
    It feels like <i>'.$temps[2].'</i>°F.';
?>

bpat1434

Okay.. what are you trying to extrapolate?

$pattern = "@[<a href=\"[\w/]*\">([\w]*)</a>]</td>@";

should work....

fly2279

I really only need to extrapolate what is in red, but what is in blue will change (in the html file that is read). This is for tracking a specific aircraft and so the 'destination' will change whenever a new flight plan is in the system, so the New York, NY will change to whatever airport is filed for and also the href of the text will change depending on the airport. But I don't really need all that, just the KLGA part:

<tr>
<th class="secondaryHeader">Destination</th>
<td class="smallrow1" nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" style="text-align: left">&nbsp; <span title="[COLOR=Blue]New York, NY[/COLOR]">[COLOR=Blue]LaGuardia[/COLOR]</span> [<a href="/live/airport/[COLOR=Blue]KLGA[/COLOR]">[COLOR=Red]KLGA[/COLOR]</a>]</td>
</tr>

bpat1434

k, so my above code should work... does it not?

Or, if you wanted to be more precise about it:

$pattern = "@<td class=\"smallrow1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp; <span title=\"[\w,]*\">[\w]*</span> [<a href=\"[\w/]*\">([\w]*)</a>]</td>@";

fly2279

I'm sorry for all the trouble. The code from your first reply works (kind of) but not the second. Here is the url for what I'm trying to remote http://flightaware.com/live/flight/EMD2
I'm trying to extrapolate the Origin and Destination. If I can get that working, in the future I'd like to read whether or not it's airborne and the eta. Back to the code. It will work for the departure but not the destination. And the second code you posted doesn't work at all for me. I've tried searching more for this but am not finding much. Can you explain what the ([\w]*) means?