Help parsing website with curl / preg_match

[Aaron]

How do I save the data from a web site so I can parse it using curl?
Here is what I have so far:

$url="www.test. com";

$post_data = array();
$post_data['var1'] = "val1";
$post_data['var2'] = "val2";

$o="";
foreach($post_d ata as $k=>$v)
{
$o.= "$k=".utf8_enco de($v)."&";
}

$post_data=subs tr($o,0,-1);

$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POST,1) ;
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_URL,$ur l);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch) ;

$parttern="/<TABLE>(.*)<\/TABLE>/";
@preg_match($pa ttern, ????????, $matches);
print_r($matche s[1]);

What would I use for the preg_match?

[ZeldorBlat]

Re: Help parsing website with curl / preg_match

On Mar 22, 1:22 pm, "Aaron" <A...@flasemi.c omwrote:

How do I save the data from a web site so I can parse it using curl?
Here is what I have so far:
>
$url="www.test. com";
>
$post_data = array();
$post_data['var1'] = "val1";
$post_data['var2'] = "val2";
>
$o="";
foreach($post_d ata as $k=>$v)
{
$o.= "$k=".utf8_enco de($v)."&";
>
}
>
$post_data=subs tr($o,0,-1);
>
$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POST,1) ;
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_URL,$ur l);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch) ;
>
$parttern="/<TABLE>(.*)<\/TABLE>/";
@preg_match($pa ttern, ????????, $matches);
print_r($matche s[1]);
>
What would I use for the preg_match?

You need to:

curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_RETURNT RANSFER, true);

Then, curl_exec($ch) will return the output (and, in your code above,
put it in $result).