slpctrl Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hello, I need help here. I need to get a page in curl, double the random number and submit it. I know how to do this, but for some reason preg_match_all isn't retrieving the number. Here is what I got: <?php $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"$url"); //other options etc etc $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); preg_match_all("/return ([a-zA-Z0-9]*)/", $result, $matches); $string = $matches[1][0]; echo $string; ?> And the HTML is gonna look something like this: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Firm Investments</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <center> <br /><b>You have 1 second to double and return: <hr>7998427334242<hr><form method="get"> Number <input type="text" name="number"><p /> <input type="submit" value="Remove" style="border:solid 1px;"> </form> </div> </body> </html> Why wouldn't this work? Curl is working correctly, I can echo $result and get the page, but the preg_match_all isn't retrieving anything >_< EDIT: Changed title and moved topic to what's really being asked about. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/87965-solved-preg_match-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
toplay Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Your expression doesn't account for the colon ( that I see in your sample HTML. It also doesn't take into account the <hr> tags. Is the number you're after 7998427334242 ? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/87965-solved-preg_match-help/#findComment-450069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Your expression doesn't account for the colon ( that I see in your sample HTML. It also doesn't take into account the <hr> tags. Is the number you're after 7998427334242 ? Yup Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/87965-solved-preg_match-help/#findComment-450073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Even when I add the tag, the colon and a combination every way I can think, no luck. ??? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/87965-solved-preg_match-help/#findComment-450077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpctrl Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Ah it was the tags, thanks. This works: $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); preg_match_all("/<hr>([a-zA-Z0-9=+\/]*)/", $result, $matches); echo ($matches[1][0]); >_> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/87965-solved-preg_match-help/#findComment-450079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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