ajax retrive text from remote div

[dzhax]

I am trying to retrive all the text/html from a div on another page.I know that all the information will be in <div class="guidecontent"></div>i saw this example:

preg_match('/\<div id\=[\"]{0,1}ad_content[\"]{0,1}\>(.*?)\<\/div\>/s', $content['content_body'], $matches);$content['content_body'] = $matches[1];

But i'm not sure how to use it.and someone posted on that forum, if there is an inner-div inside the div you are trying to grab it stops at the end of it instead of at the end of the div you want.

[dzhax]

I found some more code but its not working

<?  $curl = curl_init();  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://runehq.com/guide.php?type=skill&id=0722");  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 6);  $full =  curl_exec($curl);  if (preg_match('/<div class=\"guidecontent\">(.*?)<\/div>/', $full, $matches)) {	echo $matches[2];  } else {	echo 'Nothing found!';  }?>

just to make sure im using it right it should find<div class="guidecontent">it keeps returning the Nothing Foundbut its definitly in the source of the page.

[justsomeguy]

Those slashes before the quotes are probably screwing it up, those are literal slashes, they're not escaping anything.

[dzhax]

nope that did not fix it...im new to regular expressions what does this part do?

(.*?)

basically i need to grab anything and i mean anything between those div tags.anyone good at writing these?

[jeffman]

The easier way to do this is to load the other page as a DOMDocument. Then you can search through it using methods like getElementByIdhttp://us2.php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.phpThe link is in the XML section, but there are HTML methods specifically.

[dzhax]

The easier way to do this is to load the other page as a DOMDocument. Then you can search through it using methods like getElementByIdhttp://us2.php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.phpThe link is in the XML section, but there are HTML methods specifically.

but the div does not have an id just a class...also not really sure how to use this

[dzhax]

i got it.

<?  $curl = curl_init();  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://runehq.com/guide.php?type=skill&id=0722");  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 6);  $full =  curl_exec($curl);  $lines = explode("<div class=\"guidecontent\">", $full);  $lines2 = explode("</div>", $lines[1]);  echo $lines2[0];?>