Pull text from another website

Re: [blind2uriz] Pull text from another website

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:46:05 -0700

Just another quick note. My idea in the previous post was based on this bit of code I found when doing some google searching:

$cleaned = preg_replace('/(.*?)<\/a>/', "\\2", $dirty)

Like I said though, that's probably as far as we can take this through support. Feel free to email in consulting (consulting@interactivetools.com). There might be some more options that way.

Thanks!

Re: [blind2uriz] Pull text from another website

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:44:13 -0700

Hi John

Thanks for posting!

This one will likely go a bit beyond what we can do in support but I think you'll want to try taking a look at the preg_replace() function:

http://ca2.php.net/preg_replace

That should let you remove everything between two characters so if you are stripping out images, set it up to remove everything from "". Of course, you'll then want to run another replace to get rid of all the tags that first command would leave behind.

Now, it could end up being that there is a great function that will do this all at once. If anyone else out there had any ideas, let us know :).

Thanks!

Pull text from another website

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:12:59 -0700

I have been trying to figure this one out for awhile now. Does anyone know how to pull just text from another website w/o bringing the pictures over using php. I used this and got the whole page w/ pictures.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// you can do something with $data like explode(); or a preg match regex to get the exact information you need
echo $data; ?>

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

John