PLEASE READ and take a second to explain this to me.

[Modernvox]

Could you please explain the workings of using the foreach statement?

 

Yes, I have spent much time reading on this. Maybe someone has the gift of communicating this to me in an easy to understand manner.

 

Maybe a simple example would help?

 

-I guess I can't comprehend why we need foreach() why can't we just print or echo the $matches[1]?

-Why does the $matches only display one match when there are at least 50 on each page?

 

$CL= Craigslist

 

See.. I am attempting to scrape musician ads from CL, but leave the link intact leading back to CL. I get the information I need , but only one or two ads are scraped. Not only that , but the links are not linking back to CL and also the ads are being mirrored (2 in a row of the same.

 

Here is my current code:

  <?php
$html = file_get_contents("http://southcoast.craigslist.org/muc/");

preg_match_all('/<a href="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/a><font size="-1">([^"]+)<\/font>/s', $html,$posts);

foreach ($posts as $post)
{
    print $post[1];
   
// do something with data
}
?> 

 

I think if someone explains the workings of the foreach function I can move on.

 

As always, thanks guys!

 

[.josh]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/php-loops

 

 

[.josh]

and btw i think your problem is what array you are trying to loop through.  preg_match_all returns a multi-dimensonal array, based on whether you have things being captured in your pattern (which you do).  I suggest after your preg_match_all, you do this:

 

echo "<pre>";print_r($posts);

 

to get an idea of the structure of the array being returned.