Screen scraping with PHP?

[joecooper]

Hi,

 

Im trying to work out a way to get the New York Lottery's Take 5 results. Theres a few sites that list the winning numbers, i assume automatically as there is alot of lottery games on these sites. what would be the best way to get this?

 

http://www.myfreepost.com/lottery/index.php/us/newyorklottery/takefive/result/

http://www.elite-lottery-results.com/?action=view_game&gid=NY2

[xyph]

I would normally use an HTML parser, but

$page = file_get_contents('http://www.myfreepost.com/lottery/index.php/us/newyorklottery/takefive/result/');

preg_match( '~\d{1,2}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2}~', $page, $match );

print_r( $match );