gather info from html doc

[only one]

hi i want to make a page that gathers how many posts ive posted on forums, i was trying to use a code

 

i was planning to first of all open the document, read it, then strip the tags and preg_replace all the other content (i reallised it wouldnt work)

 

i got this far, but it didnt seem to work at all:

<?php
$filename = "http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=45841";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle);
$strip = strip_tags($contents);
echo "$strip";
?>

 

anyone got any ideas?

 

thanks, Only

[per1os]

www.php.net/file_get_contents

 

or

 

www.php.net/file

 

I think fopen you would have to do a loop to get it into a string/array.

 

file_get_contents puts it into a string

 

file puts it into an array.

[only one]

kk thanks ill have a look

[Nameless12]

http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetss.php

 

And the reason your fread is not working is you did not specify a size, try adding an additional argument of filesize($filename)

 

EDIT, SimpleXML or the DOM is better suited to what you are trying to do.