http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 17 May 2008 22:06:33 GMT DZone Snippets: grabber code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2245 Grabs specified tags from any url on the net and then echos each of the results on a seperate line, you then have the option to remove the tags from the echoed results. <br /> <br /><code> <br /><?php <br /> <br />$config['url'] = "http://www.business-tycoon.com"; // url of html to grab <br />$config['start_tag'] = "<b>"; // where you want to start grabbing <br />$config['end_tag'] = "</b>"; // where you want to stop grabbing <br />$config['show_tags'] = 0; // do you want the tags to be shown when you show the html? 1 = yes, 0 = no <br /> <br />class grabber <br />{ <br /> var $error = ''; <br /> var $html = ''; <br /> <br /> function grabhtml( $url, $start, $end ) <br /> { <br /> $file = file_get_contents( $url ); <br /> <br /> if( $file ) <br /> { <br /> if( preg_match_all( "#$start(.*?)$end#s", $file, $match ) ) <br /> { <br /> $this->html = $match; <br /> } <br /> else <br /> { <br /> $this->error = "Tags cannot be found."; <br /> } <br /> } <br /> else <br /> { <br /> $this->error = "Site cannot be found!"; <br /> } <br /> } <br /> <br /> function strip( $html, $show, $start, $end ) <br /> { <br /> if( !$show ) <br /> { <br /> $html = str_replace( $start, "", $html ); <br /> $html = str_replace( $end, "", $html ); <br /> <br /> return $html; <br /> } <br /> else <br /> { <br /> return $html; <br /> } <br /> } <br />} <br /> <br />$grab = new grabber; <br />$grab->grabhtml( $config['url'], $config['start_tag'], $config['end_tag'] ); <br /> <br />echo $grab->error; <br /> <br />foreach( $grab->html[0] as $html ) <br />{ <br /> echo htmlspecialchars( $grab->strip( $html, $config['show_tags'], $config['start_tag'], $config['end_tag'] ) ) . "<br>"; <br />} <br /> <br />?> <br /></code> Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:39:21 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2245 mrwhale (Paul Janaway)