[SOLVED] Is this possible?

[labine50]

I'm not what you may call "good" with PHP, so I thought I should probably ask about this.

 

I'm trying to put together a list of everybody who plays this game called "Urban Dead". The member ID system is pretty simple; everybody gets the next number that was available when they join. (So, if you joined, and the last person who joined got 1000, you would get 1001.)

 

The basic idea is that it would record the ID number and the name, then add it to a page with all of the number on it. This is what I've been doing manually so far, but I'm starting to get carpal tunnel syndrome from pressing Ctrl, V, and C.

 

I was wondering, would it be possible to make a script where you just enter two numbers, (Ex- 1 and 1000) and then it would go through every ID between those two numbers and records the data to the document, or sends it via email to me? (The data, of course, being the ID number and the stuff between <span class="ptt"> and </span>, which is the name of the person)

 

It sounds bloody complicated, but I think complicated coding is better than going through all ~1 100 000 profiles.

[revraz]

So the members are not stored in a Database?

 

Is this your site or someone elses?

[papaface]

Yes that is possible and not that difficult actually

[acidglitter]

It sounds like something you could do with a simple mysql query (i'm just guessing its mysql you're saving it to)

 

 

[labine50]

No, I'm not the guy who owns the website.

 

It's nice to know that it is possible, though. (I assume it still is even though it's now clear I don't own the website) I'll see if I can get something to work now...

[cooldude832]

can u show us a page with the list your copying?

[labine50]

Should have clarified this, too-

There is no list. A link to a profile looks like this- http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1000

[Ken2k7]

Oh so data is stored via database. This is easy.

[sasa]

try

<form method="POST">
Start:<input type="text" name="start" /><br />
End:<input type="text" name="end" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
<?php
if ($_POST['submit']){
echo '<table border="3"><tr><td>ID</td><td>NAME</td></tr>';
for ($i = $_POST['start']; $i <= $_POST['end']; $i++) {
	$file = 'http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id='.$i;
	$a = file_get_contents($file);
	preg_match('/<span class="ptt">(.*)<\/span>/',$a,$b);
	echo "<tr><td>$i</td><td>{$b[1]}</td></tr>\n";
}
echo '</table>';
}
?>

[labine50]

Oh, wow, thanks! You are *officially* my hero.