substr() not working?

[jordan443]

So I'm tried to make a script that grabs html from a page and echos a part of it. I wanted to make it start before <h1 class="ttl"> and end before <b>Tagged as</b>. Heres what I have:

<?php
$file_contents = file_get_contents('http://eyemanga.com/beelzebub/'); 
$start = strpos($file_contents, '<h1 class="ttl">'); 
$end = strpos($file_contents, '<b>Tagged as</b>', $start); 
$code = substr($file_contents, $start, $end); 

echo $code;

?>

When I use it it starts at the right place but it doesn't end in the same place I defined. 

Any ideas??

 

[DavidAM]

The third parameter to substr is the LENGTH not the POSITION. You need to determine how many bytes you want.

[Dathremar]

As the documentation says http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

 

string substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] )

 

You need to put something like:

 

 

$code = substr($file_contents, $start, ($end - $start));