Try this function, Ijust wrote it for the same purpose. You just need a
unique string in front of the stuff you want, and one after it. You
can usually get a string of code on either end that will do this. The
function will open the URL, find the anchor strings you told it, then
strip them
I have the following website that i want to grab info from:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60034.shtml
Say I wanted the current temperature for Melbourne from this table, what
line of code would I need to tell it to get that info - ie, an ereg()
expression...
i'm wondering whether there are
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
If the target is in well-formed XML (XHTML is an example), you could use XSLT
to say 'i want the third column of a particular row - in this instance,
Melbourne'. However, since few people actually adhere to standards, you're
probably going to need
someone gave me the following expression which uses another program and it
works fine for them... is there something similar with php?
wget --timeout=90 -q -O- http://www.BoM.GOV.AU/products/IDO30V01.shtml | sed
'1,/Melbourne sup/d' | sed '1d;3,$d;s/.*//;s/.*//'
thanks,
adam.
Evan Nemerson
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