Loop the results

[egturnkey]

Hello dear friends,

 

I've made littel code that fetch the categories name from an software website

 

 

$text= file_get_contents('http://win.softpedia.com/');
// it make win.softpedia as text code

$start =  strstr("$text",'<ul id="windows_cat">');
// search inside to that start point

$end = strpos("$start",'" title="');
// end at it to that end point

$cat = substr($start,66,$end-66);
echo "$cat<hr>";

 

it will show now the categories but it only shows the 1st one

Antivirus/

 

how then loop it to find next and next and so on to show me the list of the categories !

 

thanks

 

[BlueSkyIS]

you might consider using preg_match_all() to get all matches in one shot.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php

 

if you want to loop, i would find the first match, truncate the string, find the next match, truncate the string, etc. (looping) until no more matches are found or the string is gone. i would use a while loop.

[PaulRyan]

I believe this will work, it will return all catergories within an array.

 

<?php
$text= file_get_contents('http://win.softpedia.com/');

$catergories = explode('<ul id="windows_cat">',$text);
$catergories = explode('</ul>',$catergories[1]);
$catergories = trim(preg_replace('/\<li><a href="http:\/\/[a-zA-Z-.]{1,}\/[a-zA-Z-]{1,}\/[a-zA-Z-]{1,}\/\"\stitle="[a-zA-Z-\/\s]{1,}\"\s>([a-zA-Z-\/\s]{1,})\<\/a><\/li>/', "$1|", $catergories[0]));
$catergories = array_slice(explode('|',$catergories),0,21);
print_r($catergories);
?>

Could possibly be shortened down but anyways, tell me how it goes bud.

 

Regards, Paul.

[egturnkey]

you might consider using preg_match_all() to get all matches in one shot.

 

I will also try this, thanks for that idea.

 

I believe this will work, it will return all catergories within an array.

Regards, Paul.

 

Amazing, it works perfect thank you so much

it has fixed 2 main problems i have cause i was going to import all categories then makes it into array

now with your code, you've made very short way to me

 

thanks

[PaulRyan]

No problem egturnkey, if you need anything just post back

 

Thanks, Paul.