This article will show the SIMPLE use of regular expressions (Perl style/PCRE) to get the values of data delimited by HTML tags. Instead of building a parser that pushes start tags onto a stack and pulls them off once a stop tag is found (if one is found) I find it much easier to use regular expressions. This article is NOT a primer to regular expressions and only shows this particular example.
Version: 1.0 Platform(s): PHP Updated: Mon Oct 27 2003
This tutorial walks you through on how to create "your own" content grabbing program in minutes. It'll tell you how to create connections, parse unwanted data, smoothen it out and then display it customized to your needs, using a simple yet concrete example of grabbing news from yahoo!
Version: n/a Platform(s): n/a Updated: Sat Oct 4 2003
Ever wonder how those sites you visit have headlines from other sites appearing on their pages? An explanation of how to take Slashdot.org's headlines explains the methods used. First it uses a small bash script to get the news, and then a perl script for inserting news into MySQL. Finally, Using PHP it makes a simple configurable table for news results.
Version: n/a Platform(s): n/a Updated: Sat Dec 11 1999
