[RESOLVED] Grab and display HTML from between two points

Hi All, long time!!

Basicly, what I am wanting todo is grab a section of HTML of one webpage (lets say...www.fruit.com/grape.html).
And then use that HTML on a local webpage on my server (lets say www.pie.com/steak.php).


I want it to use the HTML, which has been fetched from between two specified points.

So the points lets say are ("<table class="pips">") and will stop grabbing the html at ("</table>")

I hope this makes sense....Im some what tired lol :duck:


Please ask any questions if you do not understand me.

Thanks,
Samm :thumb:

I do not understand why you need to do this. I assume you have permission from the copyright owner to do this too. ;)

From a friends website, to my website ;). And yes, permission granted :p

you can use file_get_contents() to grab a page's contents. then, you can use strpos() and substr() to get the information you'd like.

PHP Code:

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<?php
  $content = file_get_contents("http://apple.com/pie.htm");

  //where we should start and end
  $start = "<table class=\"pips\">";
  $end = "</table>";
  
  $st_pos = strpos($content, $start) + strlen($start);  //starting position
  $en_pos = strpos($content, $end);  //end position

  $content = substr($content, $st_pos, $en_pos - $st_pos);

  echo $content;
?>

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Works a treat, thankyou! :)