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[timmah1]

I'm trying to find a tutorial or something that will allow me to show movie times from Fandango on my site.

I found one thing, but it's not displaying anything.

 

<?
$url = "http://www.fandango.com/san+diego_ca_movietheatershowtimes";
$file = "content.inc"; 
$unique_start = '<table width="677" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">'; 
$unique_end = '<table width="678" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">';

ini_set('max_execution_time', '0');
flush ();

// fetch domain from url
$fetch_domain = parse_url($url);

$fetch_domain = $fetch_domain[host];

// Host checking code
$socket_handle = fsockopen("$fetch_domain", 80, $error_nr, $error_txt,30);
if(!$socket_handle)
{

print("Cannot make a connection to: $fetch_domain and therefore cannot collect your requested data");
$contents = implode("",@file( $file ) );
echo $contents;
exit;
}

$fd= fread(fopen("$url", "r"), 100000);

if ($fd)
{
$start= strpos($fd, "$unique_start");
$finish= strpos($fd, "$unique_end");
$length= $finish-$start;
$code=substr($fd, $start, $length);
}

echo $code;
$tmpfile = fopen($file,"w+");
$fp = fwrite($tmpfile,$code);
fclose($tmpfile);
flush ();
?>

 

Does anybody know how I could modify this script, or a good tutorial to show how this can be done?

 

Thanks in advance

[MadTechie]

OKay this is just a basic idea.. but should help..

your need to tweak the RegEx (we have a RegEx section)

<?php
$html = file_get_contents("http://www.fandango.com/san+diego_ca_movietheatershowtimes");
preg_match_all('%<div class="title">.*?<h4>.*?<a[^>]*?>\s*(.*?)</a>.*?</h4>.*?</div>.*?<div\s+class="times">(.*?)</div>%sim', $html, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$result = $result[0];
foreach($result as $r)
{
echo $r;
}
?>

 

Please note the RegEx was written in a kinda rush.. so some clean up is required