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sarmenhb

12-12-2008 12:42 AM

scraping a webpage for text

hello,

i'm trying to make an app that when a user enters a domains name the file_get_contents will scrape only the visible text on the page and display to the user

this is what i've got so far

Code:



<?php

$data = file_get_contents('http://www.gothostin.com/sarmenhb');

$regex = '/[a-zA-z]/';

preg_match($regex,$data,$match);

var_dump($match);

echo $match[1];

?>

but i keep getting something like array{0} or something

what am i doing wrong?

thanks

Wildhoney

12-12-2008 02:49 AM

Only the visible text as opposed to...

martins256

12-12-2008 05:34 AM

Why can't you use strip_tags() ?
<?php
echo strip_tags(file_get_contents('http://www.gothostin.com/sarmenhb'));
?>

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