- preg_match: documentation ( source)
- htmlentities: documentation ( source)
<?php
function file_get_the_contents($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 10; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $file_contents;
}
$text = file_get_the_contents('http://www.nu.nl/') ; // scrape page into variable
preg_match ('/<fieldset id="zoek">([^`]*?)</fieldset>/', $text, $temp); // get data out of the page
echo htmlentities($temp[0]) ; // spits out the 1st occurance of your data
echo 'test';
?>