Getting information from other sites

[Muncey]

Hi, was planning on making a bbcode and i wanted to know how to get data from a site. For example a site displays information about albums.

Link example: albumsite.com/albumname/

Each album has it's own page but all the pages are layed out the same... for example:

Artist: Name here
Album Title: Title here
Year: Year here

ect.

How do i pull the data out of artist/album title ect depending on what is put inbetween the bbcode.

[album]albumname[/album]

Hope that makes sense, Thanks in advanace.

[leatherback]

You will need to write your own page parsers, if the site does not give you a stream of XML withthe required details. Before ding so, please avoid legal hassles, and check that you are actualy allowed to do this. Even though iformation on the web is open acces, it usually is not free to reproduce on other websites.

e.g.:

  $contents = file_get_contents($url);
  if(preg_match('/\/images\/products\/front\/(.|\n)*?["]/si', $contents, $matches))
    {
	$matches[0] = substr($matches[0], 0, -1);
	}