how can I extract this data

[desjardins2010]

Guys I'm trying to get a certain piece of info in the quickest possible way so the site don't load slow when fetching..

 

the site i'm getting data from is silverclix.com and the piece I wan't is the Total Paid and total Members at the top of the screen

 

the pieces of info are in this list

<!-- #statistics -->
        <div class="span8" id="statistics">
                	<section>
              <ul>
                <li class="total-paid">Total Paid: <span>$22,204.32</span></li>
                <li class="total-members">Total Members: <span>31912</span></li>
                <li class="users-online">Users Online: <span></span></li>                                      
              </ul>
            </section>
            
        </div>
        <!-- #statistics ends -->

and I have tried this...

<?php
			$content = file_get_contents('http://www.silverclix.com/index.php');

			preg_match('#<ul><li>(.*)total-paid</li></ul>#', $content, $match);
			$total_paid = $match[1];		
		
		?>

that hasn't worked so if anyone can help please   

[requinix]

Don't use regular expressions to parse or navigate through HTML. Use DOMDocument to load it and then DOMXPath to get to that specific part of the HTML using the (untested) example query

//div[@id='statistics']/section/ul/li[@class='total-paid']/span

[desjardins2010]

great comment and I'm sure it's better option but I have no clue about DOMDocument so.... any chance in written me a little something and explaining how it works??

[requinix]

The documentation for DOMXPath::query has a relevant example - HTML versus XML doesn't really make a difference in what you do (beside changing a couple method calls). If you want to see the book.xml it uses, it's here.