displaying a string from html

[sys4dm1n]

I am using curl to scrape html from a page to display information. I am trying to figure out how to search for specific pieces of information and display the stats (they arent static numbers).

So far I have:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://{$url}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "{$user}:{$pass}");

$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (!$result) {
	echo "<br />cURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);
	echo "<br />cURL error:" . curl_error($ch);
	exit;
}
curl_close ($ch);
$requests = <span class=\\"gensumtitle\">Successful requests:</span>;
$reqs = strstr($result, '$requests', false);
print $reqs;
?>

I am looking to display the number which comes after <span class="gensumtitle">Successful requests:</span> in the html.

The html source for this section looks like:

<p class="gensumlines">
<span class="gensumtitle">Successful requests:</span> 32,037
<br /><span class="gensumtitle">Average successful requests per day:</span> 7,996
<br /><span class="gensumtitle">Successful requests for pages:</span> 1,887

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

[bretticus]

Checkout this HTML DOM parser for finding elements.

Otherwise you could use regular expressions to isolate your code or strip_tags() to remove the html tags if that will make it easier for you.

[Ilyes]

Ok,
$string is the html source.

$pos= strpos( $string , '<span class="gensumtitle">Successful requests:</span>' ) ;
$posbr = strpos( $string , "<br />", $pos );

$younumber=substr($string,$pos+53, $posbr-$pos-53); 
echo $younumber;