Need Help with Curl and PregMatch

[biobrain]

I want to curl a page and extract data between a div tag

<div class="topmasters" align="center"> data required </div>

here is my code

// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "[URL unfurl="true"]http://example.com/");[/URL]

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// grab URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);


preg_match_all('/<div\s class=\'topmasters\' \s align=\'center\'>(.*?)<\/div>/",$output, $t);

$output=str_replace('/<div\s class=\'topmasters\' \s align=\'center\'>','',$t[0]);

echo $output;

?>

Please help to spot the error in the code?

 

[DonQuichote]

If you put spaces around the \s characters, I think you are saying that you want three characters.

Furthermore, .* is greedy, as far as I know. So the closing tag is already within the (.*?) part.

+++ Despite being wrong in every important aspect, that is a very good analogy +++
Hex (in Darwin's Watch)

 

[jpadie]

is this the pattern you're looking for?

$pattern = '/<div\s.*?class=(\'|")topmasters\1.*?>(.*?)</div>/ims';

 

[biobrain]

I have updated my code as

<?php

// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "URL.COM");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// grab URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

$pattern = '/<div\s.*?class=(\'|")topmasters\1.*?>(.*?)</div>/ims';

preg_match_all('$pattern, $output, $t);

$output=str_replace('$pattern','',$t[0]);

echo $output;

?>

but it is not working. I guess still there is some problem

 

[jpadie]

i have no idea what your code is supposed to do!

try this

<?php

// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "URL.COM");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// grab URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

$pattern = '/<div\s.*?class=(\'|")topmasters\1.*?>(.*?)</div>/ims';

preg_match_all($pattern, $output, $matches);
echo "<pre>";
print_r ($matches);
?>

the 'found' text will be in the [2] subkey of each match.

 

[biobrain]

Here is my complete code. I want to fetch the media player streaming from the page.

I have tried again but this is still not working.

<?php

// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "[URL unfurl="true"]http://desimadesi.webhop.org/pak%20Channels/playmovies.php?mid=46");[/URL]

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// grab URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

$pattern = '/<div\s.*?class=(\'|")topmasters\1.*?>(.*?)</div>/ims';

preg_match_all($pattern, $output, $matches);
echo "<pre>";
print_r ($matches);
?>

 

[DonQuichote]

Can you define "not working"?

+++ Despite being wrong in every important aspect, that is a very good analogy +++
Hex (in Darwin's Watch)

 

[biobrain]

Just getting a blank page

 

[jpadie]

can you provide the url you are working with?

 

[biobrain]

I want to extract the windows media player streaming from this URL

http://desimadesi.webhop.org/pak Channels/playmovies.php?mid=46

I can curl the whole page. But there is some problem with preg match statement