Getting Specific Tag from Remote Site using PHP

Question

<?php
  $html = file_get_contents('http://xpool.xram.co/index.cgi');
  echo $html;
?>

I want to get information in a tag on a remote web site using php. and only the tags.

I found this small string that is great for retrieving the entire site source. However, i want to get a small section only. How can I filter out all the other tags and get only the one tag I need?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/960841/how-to-use-dom-php-parser — Paul Dessert, Dec 17 '13 at 08:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 08:05

I'd suggest using a PHP DOM parser. (http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm)

require_once ('simple_html_dom.php');

$html = file_get_contents('http://xpool.xram.co/index.cgi');

$p = $html->find('p'); // Find all p tags.

$specific_class = $html->find('.classname'); // Find elements with classname as class.

$element_id = $html->find('#element'); // Find element with the id element

Read the docs, there are tons of other options available.

Getting Specific Tag from Remote Site using PHP

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