PHP Dom - Program to select, and code?

[roxahh]

Hello

I'm not the best at php, but i want to use php dom to grab some content from a site and paste it on mine (with an interval in hours). but i have searched for some days now.. and found out that it's complicated to use. anyway the question is, do anyone know if there's a program where i can select the code i want to grab and then the program do the rest?

Thanks in advance

[bjarneo]

I don't know any program. But maybe you can tweak this regex / code to fetch whatever you want from the site DOM.

This code fetch all links from codingforums.com php thread.
file_get_contents() php.net: http://no.php.net/manual/en/function...t-contents.php

PHP Code:

<?php

$html = file_get_contents('http://www.codingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6');
$links = pc_link_extractor($html);
foreach($links as $link)
{
    print $link[0] . "<br />\r\n";
}

function pc_link_extractor($html)
{
    $links = array();
    preg_match_all('/<a\s+.*?href=[\"\']?([^\"\' >]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i', $html, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
    foreach($matches as $match)
    {
        $links[] = array($match[1], $match[2]);
    }
    return $links;
}


?>

If you want to grab the content with an interval in hours, use cronjobs. (If this is available).


Edit: cURL is also an option.

Last edit: http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocu...lementbyid.php

[roxahh]

Thanks for the response I'll look at it and try to get it to work and let u know if i get a problem :P