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string handling - extract string from offsite was created/last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2004 12:32 AM

this will get parts of websites on remote servers

just specify words in the remote source to start and end the output

<?php
   
   // the adress of the remote file to read
   $off_site = 'http://fundisom.com/phpsnippets/snip';
   // you have to backslash certain characters !
   $start = '<title>';
   $end = '<\/title>';

   $fp = fopen ($off_site, 'r') or die('Unable to open file '.$off_site.' for reading');
   
   while (!feof ($fp))
   {
       $buf = trim(fgets($fp, 4096));
       $cont .= $buf;
   }
   
   preg_match("/$start(.*)$end/s",$cont,$match);
  
   echo 'the title of '.$off_site.' is <b>'.$match[1].'</b>';
   
   
?>

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