[SOLVED] reading specifics from a page

[ramli]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to read a webpage source to get specific information.

 

for exaple a webpage with the source:

 

  html>...

 

    head>....

    body>....

    Hellow my name is: #Value my lastname is : jordan

    And the name of my dog is

  <body.....

 

 

and i want to read the #Value that is a variable value. so i need to create

a sort of anker to select the value. i think i need to read every line, one line

at a time. Then i need to recognise the sentence  "Hellow my name is:". Next

i need to select the value that recides inbetween ":" and "my".

 

I have constructed the following script. But it can only tell me that

the sentence is present.

 

$url = 'http://www.test.test';

$needle1 = Hellow my name is:";

 

 

$contents = file_get_contents($url);

 

if(strpos($contents, $needle1)!== false)

{

$var= 'yes';

}

 

Can someone help me with the rest.

 

Thx in advance....

[Psycho]

<?php

$contents = file_get_contents($url); 
$pattern = '/(Hellow my name is: )(.*)( my lastname is)/';

preg_match($pattern, $contents, $matches);

$firstname = $matches[2];

?>

[ramli]

Thx this is exacly what i was looking fore