Getting content from other page

[eK3eKyToPa]

I want to display on my page a part of the source code from another page that isn't on the same server.
For example if my variable is "Blue%20Widgets"
to get a part from the source of page:
http://www.example.com/?search=Blue%20Widgets
I need only the:
displayId: 30587, slot: 8
part to be displayed

If possible give some examples

[edited by: eK3eKyToPa at 11:30 am (utc) on July 11, 2008]

[edited by: coopster at 12:28 pm (utc) on July 11, 2008]
[edit reason] generalized domain and keywords [/edit]

[eelixduppy]

You can grab the source from that page using file_get_contents [php.net]() and then depending on the formatting you are going to have to use a mixture of string functions to grab the data that you want. The most likely youu'll be using, however, is regular expressions [php.net]. Take a look and see what you can do.

[eK3eKyToPa]

I use this

if ( $e1 !="_" && $e1 != "") {
$data=file_get_contents("http://www.localhost.com/?search=PAGE",FALSE,NULL,0,7000);
list($nachalensors, $displayIdplus) = explode("displayId:", $data);
list($displayId, $slotplus) = explode(", slot: ", $displayIdplus);
list($slot, $krai) = explode('})">', $slotplus);

echo $slot . ", " . $displayId . ", ";

}
And this works, but maybe will be slow
AND I cant set the source site as a variable
this dont works:

$e1 = "PAGE";
$search = "http://www.localhost.com/?search=" . $e1;
$data=file_get_contents( $search ,FALSE,NULL,0,7000);

HOW to do it ?

[edited by: eK3eKyToPa at 5:50 pm (utc) on July 11, 2008]

[eelixduppy]

In order for me to help you extract the data from the page, can you give me an example of the format the data is in? I can get a basic understanding by how you are extracting it, but for me to truly help you I need an exact look at how it's being displayed.

As for your code not working with the variable 'search' terms, there is only one problem that I see, which, given the example you have shown above, isn't a problem for that specific case. The only thing you should do it urlencode the search string like this:

$search = 'http://www.example.com/?search=' . [url=http://www.php.net/urlencode]urlencode[/url]($e1);

other than that it looks fine. Check for any errors in your error log to see if anything comes up? It should be working, however.