Finding elements in an URL and scraping them..

[n00bse]

Gah. This is driving me nuts. I've scraped up an XML file (sort of) and I need to extract some elements out of it but I am having no luck.

I get only this far...:

$url = "http://www.mysite.com/xml.xml";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$curl_scraped_page = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$fullstring = $curl_scraped_page;

$parsed[] = get_string_between($fullstring, "<U>", "</U>");
echo $parsed[0];

echo substr_count($fullstring, "<U>"); // (I just wanted to check how many instances..)

Now all this does is return the first values in between <U> and </U> but I need it to loop through the whole document..how do I go about it?

This could probably be done a heck of a lut nicer with regex but I sort of suck at it (and this in general..) :queasy:

[scrupul0us]

can we get a look at the XML file or an idea of its structure? best would be to use simplexml() methods

[NogDog]

You could use the ever-popular preg_match_all():

preg_match_all('#<UL>(.*)</UL>#sU', $fullstring, $parsed);
$numberFound = count($parsed[1]);
echo "<pre>".print_r($parsed, 1)."</pre>\n";