Help parsing artist,songname and image url from remote html

[shobert09]

Hi all there is a remote html page that has artist,songname and image url .
I want to get these infromation as variables when ever i pull that page .

i tried the following solution but it doesn't output the image url for me(

http://www.somesite.com/static/artists/rj_box.jpg)

.
could any one tell me what i am doing wrong and how to fix it.Also i want these information
as varibles inteasd of current output type.Thanks

<?PHP
$html = file_get_contents("./test.html");
//preg_match("/<img border=\"0\" src=\"(.*)\" border=\"0\">$/", $html, $urls);
//preg_match("<td width=\"100\" (.*)>(.*)</td>", $html, $tdmatch);
preg_match("/<td width=\"100\" (.*)>(.*)<\/td>/", $html, $tdmatch);   

echo "<pre>";
//var_dump($urls);
var_dump($tdmatch);
echo "</pre>";

?>

Note: the information that i want to extract are shown in bold.


Html of page that i want to pull every few seconds:
<table border=0 width="280" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding=5><tr><td align="center" width="80">
<a href="

http://www.somesite.com"

target="_blank"><img border="0" src="

http://www.somesite.com/static/artists/rj_box.jpg"

border="0"></a></td><td width="100" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#000000;">the power of love<br>"celine dion"</td><td valign="top"><table><tr><td><table><tr><td><a href="

http://www.somesite.com"

target="_blank"><img border="0" src="

http://www.somesite.com/static/artists/rj_box.jpg"

width="30" height="30" border="0"></a></td><td><font size="1" face="Arial" color="red"><b>RADIO<br> </b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><a href="

http://www.somesite.com/listen"

target="_blank"><img border="0" src="

http://www.somesite.com/images/nwp96k.gif"></a></td></tr><tr><td><a

href="

http://www.somesite.com/listen"

target="_blank"><img border="0" src="

http://www.somesite.com/images/nwp128k.gif"></a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

current output image attached:

http://www.4freeimagehost.com/show.php?i=06329d335f4c.jpg

 

[jpadie]

i would use regular expressions to extract these tags.

you could use this pattern to extract the urls of anchor tags. an easy adaptation can be made for img tags.

//this pattern
$pattern = '/<a.?*\bhref\\s*=\\s*(\'|")(.*?)\\1/i';
preg_match($pattern, $websitecontents, $matches);
print_r($matches);

 

[shobert09]

jpadie thanks for reply. I tried you solution but i keep getting the following error. could you also tell me how to get image tag,song name,artist name using this method as variables?Thanks

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: reference to non-existent subpattern at offset 4 in fetchtest2.php on line 5
Array ( )

<?PHP
$html = file_get_contents("./test.html");
//this pattern
$pattern = '/<a.?*\bhref\\s*=\\s*(\'|")(.*?)\\1/i';
preg_match($pattern, $websitecontents, $matches);
print_r($matches);

?>

 

[jpadie]

try this pattern

$pattern = '<a.*?\\bhref\\s*=\\s*(\'|")(.*?)\\1/i';

i did not test the previous code. mea culpa.

 

[shobert09]

i tried it and got this error at first:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending matching delimiter '>' found in on line 6

Then i added > at the end of that line and i got this:
Array()

$pattern = '<a.*?\\bhref\\s*=\\s*(\'|")(.*?)\\1/i>';

Furthemore, do you think this will out put image url,songname and artist name all together?

 

[jpadie]

put a forward slash at the beginning.

or, if you want more help, give me the url for the website your querying so that i can test it.

 

[shobert09]

jpadie do you mean i need to put \ or / at :

$pattern = '/<a.*?\\bhref\\s*=\\s*(\'|")(.*?)\\1/i>';

The actual url is :

http://services.radiojavan.com/rss.php?html=280

i want to get image url and song name and artis name as varibles not just displaying them. I be happy if you be able to help me with this.Thanks

 

[jpadie]

that makes life easier.

here is the code you need. the variables are available in $imageURL, $artist and $song

<?php
    $url = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://services.radiojavan.com/rss.php?html=280';[/URL]
	$pattern ='/<img border="0" src="http:\/\/(.*?)" border="0"><\/a><\/td><td width="100" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#000000;">(.*?)<br>(.*?)<\/td>/i';
	preg_match($pattern, file_get_contents($url), $matches);
	list ($ignore, $imageURL, $artist, $song) = $matches;
?>

 

[shobert09]

jpade thanks since i am using that image in the following code. is it possible to add http:\\ at start of image url since the follwoing code fails wihtout it:

$background = imagecreatefrompng("./backround_image3.png");

  
        $insert = imagecreatefromjpeg(str_replace(' ', '%20', $imageURL));

  	imagecopymerge($background,$insert,47,50,0,0,80,80,100);

	$fontcolor = imagecolorallocate($background, 255, 255, 255);
	$font = 'font/arialbd.ttf';

i get this error:

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagecreatefromjpeg([URL unfurl="true"]www.radiojavan.com/static/artists/shahab%20tiam.jpg):[/URL] failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/[URL unfurl="true"]www/Display/current2.php</b>[/URL] on line <b>35</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagecopymerge(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/[URL unfurl="true"]www/Display/current2.php</b>[/URL] on line <b>37</b><br />
‰PNG


 

[jpadie]

you would just do this:

$insert = imagecreatefromjpeg('[URL unfurl="true"]http://'.$imageURL);[/URL]

 

[shobert09]

jpadie thanks once agine. Buti want to keep the str_relace since some of the image names has spaces on it. how should i add that http:// to the following line and keeping str_replace?

$insert = imagecreatefromjpeg(str_replace(' ', '%20', $imageURL));

 

[jpadie]

i still don't see why you need the str_replace. if you must, use urlencode instead.

$insert = imagecreatefromjpeg(urlencode('[URL unfurl="true"]http://'.$imageURL));[/URL]

 

[shobert09]

jadie since some of the image urls have spaces and strange characters i used that str_replace reduce the problem.when the image url has space i get this error:

br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagecreatefromjpeg([URL unfurl="true"]http://www.radiojavan.com/static/artists/parviz[/URL] rahman panah.jpg): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
 in <b>/home/[URL unfurl="true"]www/current2.php</b>[/URL] on line <b>36</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagecopymerge(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in <b>/home/[URL unfurl="true"]www/current2.php</b>[/URL] on line <b>38</b><br />
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pointing at the following lines:

        $insert = imagecreatefromjpeg('[URL unfurl="true"]http://'.$imageurl);[/URL]
  	//$insert = imagecreatefromjpeg($imageurl);
  	imagecopymerge($background,$insert,47,50,0,0,80,80,100);

what i ma trying to take the image and add another image around it like frame but when image url has spaces or strange characters it fails and gives me that error

 

[jpadie]

so use the urlencode code that i gave you in the last post.

if even that does not work, then try the raw_url_encode() equivalent.

personally, it works fine for me without the encoding.