Fetching data from other site with cURL

Hi guys, I need a little help. I want to fetch data from another site using cURL, but I don't know how to do it using preg_match_all and how to provide output.

This is the source code of the data that I want to get:

<td> <b>Text</b> </td>
<td> <b>Numbers here</b> </td>
<td> <b>Numbers here</b> </td>

Code (markup):

Thanks.

 

Here's a quick little cURL script I threw together for you:

<?
// call this function, and pass it the website URL
// It will return a string with the websites source

function curl_page($url){
// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
			
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
			
// grab URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);
						
// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

return $output;
}
?>

PHP:

Alright, this is off the top of my head (and I always screw up the regex when I do it without testing). But this *should* work . . . if it doesn't just tinker with the regex part (the "/<td>.*<\/td>/" part).

preg_match_all("/<td>.*<\/td>/", $data, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

PHP:

Or something like that
- Louis

 

Little modification.

preg_match_all("/<td>(.*)?<\/td>/iU", $data, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

PHP:

 

tx me also searching for this ..

 

Thanks Louis11 and xrvel, you guys brought the thorn out of me

 

No problem Feel free to PM me any time with any questions you have.

 

I have some in mind, will PM you later

 

Very nice, Louis.

 

Very nice but didn't work out well, actually. Problems with the regexp I think.

 

Try using the DOM if you have php5

$html = $curl_response; // whatever you get from the above script, the html of the page

$dom = new DomDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$tags = $dom->getElementsByTagName('td');
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
    if ($tag->firstChild->tagName == 'b')
        echo $tag->textContent;
}

PHP:

 

It was solved already. Thanks to xrvel, and I explored it a lil bit. Thanks for your responses though