foreach array problem

[sikelsh2]

Sorry for the title, not sure what to call this

using various things ive read and picked up today, ive managed to get this far (not that bad for newb I guess), however I cant seem to get it work properly

What im trying to do, is parse the most recent posts on Proboards Forum, using PHP, I want the link, the title and comments, this eventually will form part of a RSS feed (programming still do, not my current problem)

I cant seem to get this to keep parsing, it only does the first entry

heres the link im parsing

http://yorksfishing.proboards4.com/index.cgi?action=recent

heres my code so far

<?php
$handle = fopen("http://yorksfishing.proboards4.com/index.cgi?action=recent", "rb");
$contents = '';
if($handle)
{
 while (!feof($handle)) {
   $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
 }
fclose($handle);
}

if ($contents)
        {
	$start= strpos($contents, "Topic:");
	$finish= strpos($contents, "(Read");
	$length= $finish-$start;
	$code=Substr($contents, $start, $length);
	$oldlink  = "/index.cgi";
	$newlink  = "http://yorksfishing.proboards4.com/index.cgi";
	$forumlink = str_replace($oldlink, $newlink, $code);

$start2= strpos($contents, "<!-- google_ad_section_start -->");
$finish2= strpos($contents, "<!-- google_ad_section_end -->");
$length2= $finish2-$start2;
$code2=Substr($contents, $start2, $length2);
$oldmarker  = "<!-- google_ad_section_start -->";
$newmarker  = "Comments: ";
$forumpost = str_replace($oldmarker, $newmarker, $code2);
}


echo $forumlink;
echo "<br>";
echo strip_tags($forumpost);

?>

heres my current output

http://www.yorkshirefishing.net/testrecent.php

I just want the above code, to do what its doing on the first recent post, and carry on for the next 24

Jeese hope that makes some sense

Thanks in advance
Si

[syn1234]

I have done this alot and i can walk u thur the logic of the problem and you can adapt it to your own code (but i think your problem is that your keeping track of your position on the page)

1) get the position on the page where you want to start (look for somthing unique in the html that will never change IE $myPosition = stripos($myhtml,"<B>start of my page">

2) start a loop, in the 1st statement get the start of what you want to parse Eg. using your position as a starting point

Do { $myPosition2 = stripos($myhtml,"<B>name:</B>",$myPosition);

make sure to check that a value that is returned, if there is no value your probably at the end of the page

Eg. if ($myPosition2 === FALSE) { break; }

now contiue to parse out your data, each time moving your $myPosition2 pointer along with you. at the end of your loop set $myPosition = $myPosition2, this will ensure you don't keep parsing out the same data over and over.

hope that helps.