Getting level stats from another website HELP!

[respiant]

Hi.

I'm making a memberlist for my legion at the online game "Aion".
I wanted to find the stats for each member, and yes it worked perfectly, but it took some time for the page to load up..

Take a look at this code:

<?php

//The $userdata['character'] is from mysql but let's just set it manually..

$userdata['character'] = "Norge";

$text = file_get_contents('http://uk.aiononline.com/characters/Perento/'. $userdata['character']);

$nr = 9;

do 
{
	$searchfor = '<span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>'. $nr .'</em>';
	$pos = strpos($text, $searchfor);

if ($pos == true) {
	$stat = $nr;
	$nr = 51;

}
else
{
	$nr++;
}
}
while ($nr < 51);

if ($pos != true){
	$stat = "<b>Below 10</b>";
}


// Okay, on the memberlist it will now say "19" under level on the user "Norge". Let's just echo it here..

echo "My level is now: <b>". $stat."</b>";

?>

This code goes to http://uk.aiononline.com/characters/Perento/Norge, reads the sourcecode of the page and is looking for "<span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>" with a number behind, and it stopped when it reached: <span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>19 because "Norge" is level 19. then it made the variable $stat with 19.

Is there any better way to do this so the page would load up faster?

Please help!

[dagon]

unless you have consent, you're breaking their terms of use.

[dabaR]

<?php
preg_match('@<span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>(\d\d?)</em>@', 'blahblah<span class="name"><span>Lv.</span> <em>19</em>', $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

Hope that helps, just tailor it to your exact need.

Reference: http://ca3.php.net/preg_match