ok so i have this script that displays the content of a webpage
PHP Code:
PHP Code:
<?php
$url = "https://www.novaworld.com/Players/Stats.aspx?id=33680801261&p=616065";
//Gets the content of the submited URL;
$content = file_get_contents($url);
//Strips the tags of the $content;
$strip = strip_tags($content);
//Removes Everything in the up to For:;
$remove = stristr($strip, 'Hawk Down');
//Declares $remove as $getstats;
$stats = $remove;
echo $stats;
?>
what i want to do is parse the name Ozymandias from the $stats string. While trying to build my regex i used a pseudo-code so i could avoide the long load of getting the actual content of the website. The psuedo code is below:
PHP Code:
PHP Code:
<?php
$string = 'Down Ozymandias. Rank: 1-Star General ( 14 ) PCID: A13-3E71AC Player Created: June 9, 2006 TABLE.statsx ';
preg_match('#Down (.*?) Rank#', $string, $matches);
$str = $matches[1];
echo $str;
?>
the $string is a word for word exerpt from the $stats string in the first code. So i figured I could use $string to test out my regex and when i get it to work just replace the static $string with the dynamic string ($stats). The regex above works fine with the static string but when i encorperated it into the larger script it does not work.
PHP Code:
PHP Code:
<?php
$url = "https://www.novaworld.com/Players/Stats.aspx?id=33680801261&p=616065";
//Gets the content of the submited URL;
$content = file_get_contents($url);
//Strips the tags of the $content;
$strip = strip_tags($content);
//Removes Everything in the up to For:;
$remove = stristr($strip, 'Hawk Down');
//Declares $remove as $getstats;
$stats = $remove;
preg_match('#Down (.*?) Rank#', $stats, $matches);
$str = $matches[1];
echo $str;
?>
i have no idea what to do. this is the only thing stoping me from progresing with my program and its a pain! any help is appreciated.
thank you!!
02-24-2007, 01:04 AM
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