[PHP] Rip Info From Website

ShadowPeo · 02-19-2006, 05:09 PM

I can echo the whole page, but as soon as I strip out the information I want (namely the phrase "It's X minutes to midnight"), I simply get ".thebulletin.org Port 80". I have done this kinda thing before with others sites an using fopen (which does not work here)

The full code is here

PHP Code:

  require_once "HTTP/Request.php";

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/169274-php-rip-info-from-website.html
 
$req =& new HTTP_Request("http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm");

$req->setMethod(HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_POST);

if (!PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) {

     $handle = $req->getResponseBody();

} else {

     $handle = "";

}

$pos = strpos($handle, 'minutes to midnight');

$pos2 = $pos+100;

$pos = $pos-50;

$domain = substr($handle, $pos, $pos2);

echo $domain;

Any Ideas on how to make this work??, Thanks

**Eric** · 02-19-2006, 05:22 PM

This will work.

PHP Code:

  <?php

 
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm');

 
preg_match("/<h1><br>(.*?)<\/h1>/si", $data, $matches);

 
echo trim(strip_tags($matches[1]));

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=169274
 
?>

http://www.secondversion.com/doomsday.php

ShadowPeo · 02-19-2006, 06:37 PM

Thanks, hadnt thought of regular expressions

02-19-2006, 05:09 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
ShadowPeo NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 26	[PHP] Rip Info From Website I can echo the whole page, but as soon as I strip out the information I want (namely the phrase "It's X minutes to midnight"), I simply get ".thebulletin.org Port 80". I have done this kinda thing before with others sites an using fopen (which does not work here) The full code is here PHP Code: require_once "HTTP/Request.php"; ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/169274-php-rip-info-from-website.html $req =& new HTTP_Request("http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm"); $req->setMethod(HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_POST); if (!PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) { $handle = $req->getResponseBody(); } else { $handle = ""; } $pos = strpos($handle, 'minutes to midnight'); $pos2 = $pos+100; $pos = $pos-50; $domain = substr($handle, $pos, $pos2); echo $domain; Any Ideas on how to make this work??, Thanks

02-19-2006, 05:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Eric Tech Support Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4,944	This will work. PHP Code: `<?php $data = file_get_contents('http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm'); preg_match("/<h1><br>(.*?)<\/h1>/si", $data, $matches); echo trim(strip_tags($matches[1])); ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=169274 ?>` http://www.secondversion.com/doomsday.php

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02-19-2006, 06:37 PM	THREAD STARTER #3 (permalink)
ShadowPeo NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 26	Thanks, hadnt thought of regular expressions

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