Arkane Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 HEy, I'm trying to write a script to get data off of another site (with admins approval) but I'm having a bit of a problem to take the actual data. I'm trying to use preg_match to find the data I need, but just cant get the thing to work for anything more complicated that telling me if there is a t in test. <td class="reltdd">Serial Code</td> <td class="reltdv">5445-9826</td> This is the html that i am trying to scrape. theres more, but its all the same pretty much. What I'm looking to get is the '5445-9826' but since the td is a class that is referred to multiple times, the only thing unique to the date is the 'Serial Code' text. I've gotten the site info via file_get_contents() and its all in the one variable - $raw . I've tried preg_match("/<td class="reltdd">(.*)</td>/", $html, $matches); echo $matches; but it had no return whatsoever. i have also echoed $html so I know it got the data correctly. I know that what I have there should only return 'Serial Code' but sinceI can't even get that to work I have no chance with the rest. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/173990-taking-information-from-a-site/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEVILofDARKNESS Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 This is supposed to be in the regex section! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/173990-taking-information-from-a-site/#findComment-917172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkane Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 Ok, my mistake, sorry. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/173990-taking-information-from-a-site/#findComment-917181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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