Pull the top 20 from last.fm

[gesseg]

Hi I need to pull the top 20 from my last.fm account. Last.fm provide an API key (?) Heres the link to mine http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.gettopartists&user=sandi-g&api_key=b25b959554ed76058ac220b7b2e0a026 I need to search this string (as html code not what a browser outputs) for "<name>" and then return all character untill the next "<" the search on again for the next "<name>" all the way up to 20.

 

Ive not got very far on this one to be honest. I dont even know how to search it as plain txt. I dont necessarily want some one to do it for me but bare in mind Ive only been coding for a few days.

[l4nc3r]

Without looking too much in to it (a simple Google query for "last.fm API tutorial" would probably solve all of your problems), I assume the API returns XML.  You might want to look up the SimpleXML library in PHP.

[gesseg]

I doesnt return xml. it would be easier if it did.

[gesseg]

sorry, it does return xml. Ive had a play round with parsing the xml. and ive got the script working but I dont understand enought to make it do what i want 

 

I want it to only output the </name> tags. Anyway heres the code i have:

<?php 

$file = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.gettopartists&user=sandi-g&12month&api_key=b25b959554ed76058ac220b7b2e0a026"; 

function contents($parser, $data){ 
    echo $data; 
} 

function startTag($parser, $data){ 
    echo "<b>"; 
} 

function endTag($parser, $data){ 
    echo "</b><br />"; 
} 

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); 

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startTag", "endTag"); 

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "contents"); 

$fp = fopen($file, "r"); 

$data = fread($fp, 3368500); 

if(!(xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)))){ 
    die("Error on line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)); 
} 

xml_parser_free($xml_parser); 

fclose($fp); 

?>

[salathe]

What version of PHP are you using?

[l4nc3r]

Let's not be lazy, gesseg.  There are plenty of places on the internet that explain how XML parsing in PHP works.  Visit any one of them and read up and then build your own last.fm parser.