[SOLVED] silly substr() problem

[Hybride]

http://vtest.anekyu.com/test.php

Basically what am trying to do is get the integer off of that page (it's currently at 28,228,474). I managed to cut off the front (so it starts with the integer), but I can't figure the combination to make it end with the integer. Any ideas? Thanks!

<? 
$var = "metallica";
$url = file_get_contents("http://www.last.fm/music/" . $var);

$v1 = 'read more';
$pos = strpos($url, $v1);


$v2 = 'plays scrobbled';
$pos2 = strpos($url, $v2);
/*
if ($pos2 === false) {
echo 'String does not exist';
} else {
echo "'$v1' exists at: $pos ";
}
*/
$test = substr($url, $pos, $pos2);
$test2 = substr($test, 10);
?>

[Fadion]

I quickly tried this localy so it should work

 

<?php
$var = "metallica";
$url = file_get_contents("http://www.last.fm/music/" . $var);
$pos1 = strpos($url, "<h5 class=\"subhead\">");
$len1 = strlen("<h5 class=\"subhead\">");
$url1 = substr($url, $pos1+$len1);
$pos2 = strpos($url1, " plays scrobbled on Last.fm</h5>");
$url2 = substr($url1, $pos2);
$urlFinal = str_replace($url2, '', $url1);
echo $urlFinal;
?>

 

Im sure there's a simpler and quicker technique for doing that, then just manipulating strings several times in a row, which adding the remote file make the proccess a lot slow.

[btherl]

A quicker approach may be to use file() to read the page into an array of lines, find the line containing "scrobbled" and process only that line.

[Hybride]

I love you guys, thanks for your help! Both worked

[MadTechie]

simple one

 

<?php
$var = "metallica";
$data = file_get_contents("http://www.last.fm/music/" . $var);
if (preg_match('/<h5 class="subhead">([0-9,]*) plays scrobbled/im', $data, $regs))
{
$result = $regs[1];
}
echo $result;
?>

[Hybride]

Wow, that worked, too! Thanks so much for all your help!