preg_match

Hi,

I have just started learning php and am stuck on preg_match i have been able to use it to get scrap bits of webpages but now i want to scrap all data between two words but cant seem to work out how.

I am trying to scrape my google rank and need to get all data from $url to clnk',''[0-9]

i have been able to get them separately but this makes me all ways rank 1.

Thanks for any help

Sav

 

Please confirm, are you trying to get your Pagerank, or your SERP?

If you can give more information (esp. URLs) I can almost definitely help. RegEx is a personal strong point.

Dan.

 

gah! I hope your not talking about regular expressions. I have spent hours upon hours trying to figure out regular expressions. I have a book I read dedicated specifically to regular expressions.
Even after I walk out thinking I have a full working knowledge, - I still end up doing it like a random hit or miss process.
Good luck. that stuff is not easy even for some experts.

 

If you go through them in a logical way, separating them into parts, they're an awful lot easier than you might think. And I've learnt without a book, or even a solid website.

Dan

 

i need to be able to get the rank that is listed after the url

i have used

//this checks to see if the url is listed
(preg_match($KeywordsEscaped, $isurllisted, $match))

//This will then return the rank
(preg_match("/$match clnk','[0-9]/", $isurllisted, $match));

PHP:

The only problem with this is that it pulls the first rank so i am rank 1 for every keyword, i was thinking if i could get all the data between the url and the rank then i would have a new string with only the correct rank which the second preg_match would return.

Thanks again

Sav

here is the source from google

www.costacomms.com/+costacomms&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','clnk','1','

HTML:

 

It sucks beeing a newbie, i had it sorted last night but because i missed a $ sign i was looking for "/urltocheck(.*?)clnk','[0-9]/"; and not the url.

Here is the working code. If anyone has any improvments or can direct me to what i should be reading to do it more eficently please let me know. I am going to go look at curl now insted of file_get_contents.

$urltocheck = "/$urltocheck(.*?)clnk','[0-9]/";
// check google is not disalowing us
if (preg_match("/Your client does not have permission to get URL/", $googlerank)){
	 echo "faild";
	}
	
	// check to see if the url is listed in the search results 
elseif (preg_match($urltocheck, $googlerank, $match)){

		(preg_match("/[0-9]/", $match[0], $match));
	echo "<br><br>rank = $match[0]";
} else {
    echo "A match was not found.";

PHP:

this only works for the first 9 results, i have fixed this in my copy