Get match() Problem

[nandla]

Hi!
I want to extract remote file data between html tags thru following method using cURL.

<?PHP


//url
$url = 'http://abc.com/somefile.html';

//get the page content
$imdb_content = get_data($url);

//parse for product name
$name = get_match('/<div class="matchHeaderTeamText">(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
$team = get_match('/<div class="matchHeaderScore">(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content);
echo $team[0] . "<br /><br /><br />";

$team = get_match('/<p class="teamText">(.*)<\/p>/isU',$imdb_content);

$rr = get_match('/<div class="matchHeaderLeft">(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content,$imdb_content );

//build content
$content.= '<h2>Line: '.$name.'</h2>';
$content.= 'Run Rate ' .$rr. '';
$content.= '<br />Team ' .$team. '';

echo $content;

//gets the match content
function get_match($regex,$content)
{
preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}

//gets the data from a URL
function get_data($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}

Everything is working fine.
But the only issue is GET_MATCH() only matches first tags only (once).
I know it can be done thru preg_match_all but I dont know how to use according to above preg match.
Can some body write a little line code for me to match all data whereever these tags happen ?
Sorry for poor english.
Waiting for response.
cheers :)

[coopster]

OK, so you know that you need to modify your function first to preg_match_all:

//gets the match content 
function get_match($regex,$content) 
{ 
  preg_match_all($regex,$content,$matches); 
  return $matches[1]; 
}

... but what next? Are you asking how you might process the returned array results? Or are you asking how to synchronize the teams and scores, etc?

[nandla]

Thanx Coopster!
But until and unless we do not have multiple lines in array, what is the need to use preg_match_all() ?
The problem is, get_match finds only first line match :(

suppose
we have 2 lines like <div id="2">text 1</div><div id="2">text 2 </div>

get_match only gets the first div data not remaining matches

[coopster]

No, it will return all occurrences found because of the subpattern capture taking place. You can see by dumping the contents of the variable after running the code. Here is a working example to demonstrate:

function get_match($regex,$content) 
{ 
 preg_match_all($regex,$content,$matches); 
 return $matches[1]; 
} 
$imdb_content = <<<ENDOFHTML 
  <table> 
    <tr><td>Table Row 1</td></tr> 
    <tr><td>Table Row 2</td></tr> 
    <tr><td>Table Row 3</td></tr> 
  </table> 
  <p>Nothing here</p> 
  <table> 
    <tr><td>Table Row 4</td></tr> 
    <tr><td>Table Row 5</td></tr> 
    <tr><td>Table Row 6</td></tr> 
  </table> 
  <p>Nothing here</p> 
ENDOFHTML; 
$team = get_match('/<tr>(.*)<\/tr>/isU',$imdb_content); 
print '<pre>'; 
  print_r($team); 
print '</pre>'; 
exit;