php and grabbing only certain data...

[cowboysdude]

Currently I am using this very popular code to get all the football scores:

$title	= $params->get('title');
$fontc = $params->get('fontc');
$fonts = $params->get('fonts');


//this array contains sports and their URLs 
$sports = array( 
"NFL" => "http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/bottomline/scores"); 
$results = array(); 
foreach ( $sports as $sport => $url ) { 
  //get the page pointed to by $url 
    $page = file_get_contents($url); 
    //grab all variables out of the page 
    preg_match_all("/&([^=]+)=([^&]+)/", urldecode($page), $foo); 
    //loop through all the variables on the page 
    foreach ( $foo[1] as $key => $value ) { 
      //debug output, you can delete this next line 
      //echo "{$value} = {$foo[2][$key]}\t<br />\n"; 
    //this chain of IF/elseif statements is used to determine which pattern to use 
    //to strip out the correct data, since each sport seems to have its own format 
    //for the variables you'd "want" 
    if ( $sport == "NFL" && preg_match("/s_left\d+/", $value) ) { 
      $results[$sport][] = $foo[2][$key]; 
    }  
    }   
     
} 

//calculate the sport with the most number of rows 
$limit = 0; 
foreach ( $results as $countMe ) { 
  $limit = max($limit, count($countMe)); 
} 

//spit out the table with the right headers 

echo "<td><b> $title </b></td><br><BR>";
"<table border=4 cellpadding=10><tr><th>" . implode("</th><th>", array_keys($sports)). "</th></tr>" ; 
//loop until you reach the max number of rows, printing out all the table rows you want 
for ( $p = 0; $p < $limit; $p++ ) { 
  foreach ( array_keys($sports) as $sport );{ 
   $change = str_replace('^','<font color=green><b>W</b> </font>' ,$results[$sport][$p]); 
   $final = str_replace('(FINAL)','<font color=red>(FINAL)', $change);
    echo "<td><font color=$fonts size=$fontc><b>$final</b></font></td><br>";  
  } 
  echo "</tr>"; 
} 
//kill the table 
echo "</table>";

 

 

 

and it works fantastically well however.... I'd only like to get certain data say like the Cowboys game info and nothing more... NOT too sure how to do this, I'm just not really sure how to read the page, grab only that data.

 

Help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you.

[Pikachu2000]

Wouldn't it be easier to just assume Romo had another meltdown and they lost?

[cowboysdude]

Welllllllllllllllllllllllll LOL THAT is just funny!!!!!!!!!!!