Get specific data from another website

[ExSpirit]

I am wondering if it's possible to get some data from another website via PHP? I would like to get data from website http://www.gamersfirst.com/warrock/?q=Player&nickname=soldier, and the exact data which I need is "Level" which is in this case 2. Can this value be grabbed and if it can, where can I get some info about how to do it?

 

[freeloader]

Sure, it's possible. Could be done in a number of ways, the easiest (for me) is cURL. You could however also use DOMDocument.

 

Then you'd have to do a regex on the page source and get the values you need. I'd give you an example on the site you just gave, but when I'm loading it, I get the following error:

 

You may have mis-typed the URL. Please check your spelling.

[ExSpirit]

Ups, the comma at the end of URL is not needed, so url is - http://www.gamersfirst.com/warrock/?q=Player&nickname=soldier

 

I was reading a few tutorials about curl but couldn't get much progress..

[freeloader]

cURL is pretty simple though, basic examples are here:

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/simpleget.html

 

Rough draft, didn't test it:

 

<?php
$CurlStart = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.gamersfirst.com/warrock/?q=Player&nickname=soldier");
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$source = curl_exec ($CurlStart);
curl_close ($CurlStart);

$a=preg_match("/Level:</td>\n.*.<td>([0-9]+)</",$source,$b);
$Level = $b[2];
?>

[ExSpirit]

I tried this code and I get this error:

 

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
...

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 't' in /home/content/test.php on line 8

[freeloader]

Ya, written in 2 secs with an obvious mistake there

 

Your regex should be:

$a=preg_match("/Level:<\/td>\n.*.<td>([0-9]+)</",$source,$b);

 

Try again using that.

[ExSpirit]

The bottom error is gone, but the internal Server Error is still there... I have no idea why...

 

Internal Server Error

 

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

 

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

 

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) Server at www.gamersfirst.com Port 80

[freeloader]

<?php
$CurlStart = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.gamersfirst.com/warrock/?q=Player&nickname=soldier");
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 Firefox/3.5.11");
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$source = curl_exec ($CurlStart);
curl_close ($CurlStart);

$a=preg_match("/>Level:.*.\n.*.>([0-9]*)</",$source,$b);
$Level = $b[1];
echo "Level: $Level";
?>

[ExSpirit]

freeloader you rock  This works like a charm now. Thank you very much!

[ExSpirit]

I managed to get most of the data, but now I'm a bit stuck at a few values:

 

Clan Name (uses href)

Clan Tag

Recruitment (uses span)

 

Beside that if Clan name or tag is empty then the code shows me input box - probably because there's another "Clan tag" and "Clan name:" in code which has input field after...

 

To get better view of the code you should check THIS LINK, where all fields are checked.

 

Can you help me how to get those values?

[samcrime786]

Hi.

Beside getting the data from other websites you can change the name or tag is empty then the code shows me input box. I agree to this term..

 

 

 

 

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