RE: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-29 Thread Graham Cossey
aham -Original Message- From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2004 02:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites i tried putting in fread() but still getting a blank screen. any other errors in here? http://hiscore.runescape.c

Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread champinoman
aham > > -----Original Message- > From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 September 2004 14:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites > > > i said i was learning this and didnt really understand it. > so going by

Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread Eduardo Sampaio
e parsing. I bet it's > what you see above. > > -TG > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:47 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing i

RE: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread Gryffyn, Trevor
ED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites > > > i said i was learning this and didnt really understand it. > so going by what has been said i have come up with the > fol

RE: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread Graham Cossey
nstead. HTH Graham -Original Message- From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2004 14:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites i said i was learning this and didnt really understand it. so going by what has been said i have come u

Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread champinoman
gt;>> >>>> From http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html: >>>> >>>> "Sometimes you have a programming problem and it seems like the best >>>> solution is to use regular expressions; now you have two problems.&qu

Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread M. Sokolewicz
al. HTH Graham -Original Message----- From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2004 09:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites instead of the POSIX regexp, tr using PERL style RegExps (www.php.net/pcre) Once you've done that, you ca

Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread M. Sokolewicz
aged to avoid them. The above URL is a pretty good tutorial. HTH Graham -Original Message- From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2004 09:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites instead of the POSIX regexp, tr using PERL s

Re: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread champinoman
ons are some kind of black art, I've been > programming > for 20 years and until recently have pretty much managed to avoid them. > The > above URL is a pretty good tutorial. > > HTH > > Graham > > -Original Message- > From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread Graham Cossey
mming for 20 years and until recently have pretty much managed to avoid them. The above URL is a pretty good tutorial. HTH Graham -Original Message- From: champinoman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2004 09:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: grabbing informa

[PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread champinoman
where abouts am i putting the modifier 'm' in the expression to allow the multilines? "Champinoman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> instead of the POSIX regexp, tr using PERL style RegExps >> (www.php.net/pcre) Once you've done that, you can add the pattern >>

[PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Champinoamn wrote: hi everyone, im fairly new to php scripting and was having trouble grabing information from a website. i have been able to grab information that is in amongst other text (for example, the word firemaking below) --- Firemaking 7,386 61 333,575 --- but the number i wa

[PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites

2004-09-28 Thread champinoman
> instead of the POSIX regexp, tr using PERL style RegExps > (www.php.net/pcre) Once you've done that, you can add the pattern modifier > 'm' to allow multilines . i think im lost now. i had a look at the site but im not sure what im looking at. any chance u could make a mock script up so i can