scan a page for a string of text?

[pixelsoul]

okay I am a php noob (like you haven't heard that before) and I am trying to figure out a way to have a script that runs on my site that scans the webpage of an other site for a string of text. Actually there are 4 different strings and I was going to store them into an array and then depending on what one it found then echo so and so.

Is something that would be easy to do? I kind of have an idea of how it might work but my inexperience is keeping me from figuring this out.

Thanks for the help 🙂

[Installer]

If you have allow_url_fopen enabled in php.ini, you could do this:

$contents = file_get_contents('http://example.com/page.html');
if (($pos = strpos($contents, $string)) !== false) {
    echo 'String found at offset ' . $pos;
} else {
    echo 'String not found.'
}

[pixelsoul]

Hey thanks alot,

I used it and made it work 🙂

Thanks