Pulling text from an external html file (not runescape!)

[Mercifull]

Ok so ive got a page on my webserver which dynamicly generates statistics in the following style:

 

 

 

total=0;good=0;views=0;edits=0;users=0;admins=0;images=0;jobs=0 

where 0 is a number between 0 and well.. infinite really but no more than a 7 digit number really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to be able to pull the total number from this file and display it on another php page using cURL or file_get_contents but im totally lost by it and cant find a tutorial thats any good for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want the number between total= and ;good=....etc anod nothing else so I need to strip all the other stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I worked out how to use file_get_contents to get a certain number of characters after a string such as total= but because I cant guarantee what the length of the number is the script varies between 13337 (total=13337;good=....) and 96;go (total=96;good=....)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I need the script to start after total= but stop before ;good= Some help would be really appreciated :)

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Unless you've got some reason to do it that way - wouldn't it just be easier to use an XML file?

[Mercifull]

Well im not an expert on this. All i know is that I need to pull off a number from a file this file and display the figure somewhere else.

[____]

Ah, the wiki; hrm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, you could fetch all the text, explode using ; for the delimeter and str replace a-z and = with null value then you'll be left with your integer values only in the array.

[Mercifull]

Im not going to pretend i know what im talking about here, Rick, so some links for help would be good lol

[runesmithie]

Could you use a regex to do it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/total=(\d+);good/

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<?php



$urlofstats = "rawstats.txt";



$rawstats = file_get_contents($urlofstats);







$num_values = explode(";", $rawstats);







$remove = array("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z","=");



foreach($num_values as $x => $value)



{



  $num_values[$x] = str_replace($remove, "", $value);



}







/* print out the values and [cabbage] */







foreach($num_values as $value)



{



  echo $value."

";



}



?>

[Mercifull]

Thanks to Rick here is the final code I used:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<?php



$urlofstats = "http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Special:Statistics?action=raw";



$rawstats = file_get_contents($urlofstats);







$num_values = explode(";", $rawstats);







$remove = array("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z","=");



foreach($num_values as $x => $value)



{



  $num_values[$x] = str_replace($remove, "", $value);



}







echo $num_values[1];







?>

[Mercifull]

In action on the front page of the Battlestar Wiki

 

 

 

Cheers Rick.