[mzllr]

i'm working on a site right now that contains a 'headlines' section that needs to grab headlines from a couple other sites and display the links. rss isn't an option, so i would like to use a php script to read the remote sites and grab the headline info.

from the php manual, i was able to come up with:
[php]
<?

$file = fopen ("http://www.example.com/", "r");
while (!feof ($file))
{
$line = fgets ($file, 1024);
if (eregi ("<a href=\"articles/>(.*)</a>", $line, $out))
{
$link = $out[0];
break;
}
}

fclose($file);

?>
[/php]

this basically does what i need it to, except that the eregi will only find matches if the opening and closing tags are on the same line. one of the sites i'm trying to grab a link from uses multiple lines:

[php]
<a href="articles/headline.htm">
Headline
</a>
[/php]

anyone have any ideas about how i can get this to work???

[mzllr]

got it...

[php]
<?

$file = fopen("http://www.example.com/" ,"r");

$j = 0;

while (!feof($file))
{
$line = fgets($file, 1024);

if ("$j" == 1) { echo "$line</a>"; $j = 0; }

if (eregi("<a href=\"/articles/(.*)>", $line, $out))
{
echo "$out[0]"; $j = 1;
}
}

fclose ($file);

?>
[/php]

if a match is found with the eregi, the next pass through the loop will echo the next line and close the link...

if anyone has an idea on how to do this better, i'd appreciate any suggestions.

[larkost]

look into the perl compatible regeps, and then learn perl-style regular expressions. They are very powerful, and can do things like this trivially.