Function help

[devWhiz]

Is it possible to have create a function that would load a URL and then you could use explode to parse out the data it gives you from the function?

 

like

 

function GetData()
{ 
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com');
return($data);
}

$MSG = explode("<message>", 'GetData');
$MSG = explode("</", $MSG[1]);

echo $MSG[0];

or would it be more efficient to just do this

 

$data = file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com');
$MSG = explode("<message>",  $data);
$MSG = explode("</", $MSG[1]);

 

What do I have to change to get the first method to work?

 

Thanks

[requinix]

1. Don't use explode(). Use regular expressions.

2. Actually, don't use regular expressions. Use DOM for HTML and SimpleXML for XML/XHTML.

[devWhiz]

Lol I'm a noob, I've been using explode to parse xml and anything else for the longest time.. Congrats on 600 posts btw

 

So what should I do here?