I've never had good luck with this function. I first learned how to (sorta) use it from looking at other code. It worked fine when I made a meta search engine, but when I tried on expanding on it, well, I've started losing hair. =) Here's the scenario:
I'm trying to parse results from Yahoo's People Search page, to "grab" the info from it. A specific link in the results contains all the info I need for each entry. A link from one such entry looks like this: psPhoneEntry.py?firstname=Adam&lastname=Collier&street=3912+Foley+Glen+Cir&city=Fenton&state=MI&zip=48430-3435&phone=8107507456 My matching pattern looks like this: $engreg = '/psPhoneEntry.py?firstname=(.*?)&lastname=(.*?)&street=(.*?)&city=(.*?)&state=(.*?)&zip=(.*?)&phone=(.*?)\">/i'; Note the "/" at the beginning, and "/i" at the end. those have always been there in other projects, and have worked. Is there anything else I'm doing wrong here? I dont get any errors, but it returns 0 matches. =) ~ Tim -- - Tim PHP Galaxy: http://www.phpgalaxy.com/ The LavaWarp Engine: http://www.phpgalaxy.com/engine.php3 BitSearch: http://www.phpgalaxy.com/bitsearch.php3 MetaWarp: http://www.phpgalaxy.com/metawarp.php3 PhotoRate: http://www.phpgalaxy.com/photorate.php3 Earn $10 per order selling these scripts on your site! http://www.phpgalaxy.com/aff/
