Getting information off a website

[TexasMd91]

I am currently making a Halo 3 Player Image Generator ( http://deltadesigns.org/texasmd/generator/playerimage/ )

 

And I have been trying to find a way how they can insert the URL of some one's bungie.net profile

(heres an example of a profile: http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Default.aspx?player=sports209 )

and get their player image off that website that they enter, and then display what parts they are using and what colors.

 

So I need to get whats between

<div class="model" ><img id="ctl00_mainContent_imgModel" src="

and

" style="border-width:0px;"/></div>

 

How would I do this?

[rarebit]

Have a play with these type's of functions...

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-grep.php

 

There's a whole forum here on the subject... http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/board,43.0.html

[GingerRobot]

Indeed. You'll first need to get information from the website either with file_get_contents or with cURL (using file_get_contents() will be easier, unless specific headers need to be sent to the site).

 

As rarebit mentioned, you'll then need to find the relevant information using regular expresions.

[HuggieBear]

As rarebit mentioned, you'll then need to find the relevant information using regular expresions.

 

This should be very easy as the developers have used a separate div class for the display of the image...

 

<div class="model">

 

Regards

Huggie

[HuggieBear]

The following works...

 

<?php

// Set the URL
$url = 'http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Default.aspx?player=sports209';

// Get the entire page contents
$page = file_get_contents($url);

// Match the image source
preg_match('/class="model".*?src="([^\"]+)/', $page, $matches);
$image_source = $matches[1];

// Echo the source
echo $image_source;

?>

 

Regards

Huggie

[TexasMd91]

The following works...

 

<?php

// Set the URL
$url = 'http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Default.aspx?player=sports209';

// Get the entire page contents
$page = file_get_contents($url);

// Match the image source
preg_match('/class="model".*?src="([^\"]+)/', $page, $matches);
$image_source = $matches[1];

// Echo the source
echo $image_source;

?>

 

Regards

Huggie

Alright thanks, however what is with all the extra characters that are on the preg_match function line.

[HuggieBear]

Take a look at Regular Expression Syntax in the manual first, as there's a section that displays the meta-characters which may answer a lot of your questions.

 

Regular Expression Syntax is really useful to know as it's excellent for writing search routines and is used in a lot of languages, there aren't many differences between language when it comes to RegEx's

 

Regards

Huggie