Get HTML source into a string?

[silver8fox2]

I'm trying to load someone's myspace.com into a string, and pull out specific parts of the html text. It would then seach the string ($html) and pick out the first value $name which would be <span class="nametext">NameHere</span>... and so forth. I then will take the values and place it on a banner for my own personal site...

 

I've tried for the past few hours searching but can't come up with the right words. It's kinda like forum sigs in which they take values from a site and place it in a image.

[scottybwoy]

Can't remember where I got these functions from and I'm not using them anymore, but I think that they are on the lines that you want :

<?php
function loadTemplate($file)
{
global $template;

$strfile = $file;

        if (!file_exists($strfile)) print"Loading template failed!";
    	$thisfile = file($strfile);

    	while(list($line,$value) = each($thisfile)) {
        	$value = ereg_replace("(\r|\n)","",$value);
        	$template .= "$value\r\n";
    	}

    	return $template;
}

function insertTempData($file, $recordset_array) {
global $template;

$this->loadTemplate($file);

foreach ($recordset_array as $key => $value) {
	$template = str_replace("id='" . $key . "' value=''", "id='" . $key . "' value='" . $value . "'", $template);
}

return $template;
}
?>

 

So what you need to do is pass your file to function loadTemplate($file),

That will turn your file into one big long string called $template.

Then create an array of constants you want to change, then pass them to function insertTempData($file, $recordset_array).

Then do what you want with $template.

 

Hope that helps

[silver8fox2]

hmm maybe I'm not as good as i thought I was lol. The URL will be like "http://www.myspace.com/soldierboy2" so to get the source of it I'd put that URL at file or? ... lol i feel so n00b right now.

[skali]

$handle = fopen("http://www.website.com/page.html", "r");

 

This will privide you a file handle to the webpage. But you need to have 'allow_url_fopen' enabled in php.ini.

[silver8fox2]

and you can tell if its not if you get "Resource id #1" ?

[silver8fox2]

On of my friends back in the day did this, i noticed its slow though but kinda works lol.

 

Prints out:

Username: Mark Ryan

Age: 20 years old

Gender: Male

Friends: 111

 

 

<?php

### Class ###
class sig{

	function parse($start, $end, $string, $is_url = false){

		if($is_url == true){

			$string	=	file_get_contents($string);

		}

		$starting	=	explode($start, $string);
		$ending		=	explode($end, $starting[1]);

		return $ending[0];

	}

	function InStr($string, $find){
		$i	=	0;
		while(strlen($string)>=$i){
			unset($substring);
			$substring	=	substr($string, $i, strlen($find));
			if($substring	==	$find){
				return true;
			}
			$i++;
		}
		return false;
	}

}

### /Class ###
$Sig	=	new Sig;
### /Get Data ###	

$id="144816244";

// Gets HTML Source
$info = file_get_contents("http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=$id");

//Gather String Text
$username = ($Sig->parse("<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MySpace Profile - ", ",", $info));
$age = ($Sig->parse("$usernam,", ",", $info));
$gender = ($Sig->parse("$age,", ",", $info));
$friends = ($Sig->parse("<span class=\"redbtext\">", "<", $info));
//Displays	
print "<b>Username:</b> $username<br>";
print "<b>Age:</b> $age<br>";
print "<b>Gender:</b> $gender<br>";
print "<b>Friends:</b> $friends<br>";

?>

 

Just if I could remeber how to do a string and make an array out of this "<meta name="description" content="MySpace Profile - Mark Ryan, 20 years old, Male, CITY, STATE, US,"

[scottybwoy]

str_replace($CONSTANT, 'replace text', $string);

 

Is what you want for that.

 

So if you combine mine and skali's post then all you need to do is set up a assosiative array of the $CONSTANTS you want to change and maybe edit the str_replace() in the first post if your feeling brave.

 

Don't worry about being a newb either, u gotta start somewhere.  I'm no programmer, by a long shot and I've been playing with php 4 6mnts now and am feeling loads more confident now, keep it up