php socks to grab info

[Ustag]

Hello, im trying to use socks to grab only time and the "killed by" text from the character deaths from this page:http://www.tibia.com...ters&name=Apaci I use this code and ofc it gives me the whole page, now how can I filter what I get so that I only get the parts that I want?

$fp = fsockopen("www.tibia.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);if (!$fp){	echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";}else{$out = "GET /community/?subtopic=characters&name=Apaci HTTP/1.1\r\n";$out .= "Host: www.tibia.com\r\n";$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n";$out .= "Accept: text/plain\r\n\r\n"; fwrite($fp, $out);$lines = Array();while (!feof($fp)){	 $lines[] = fgets($fp, 1024);} for($i=0; $i<count($lines); $i++){	 echo $lines[$i];} fclose($fp); }

Edited March 10, 2012 by Ustag

[birbal]

You can capture part of text using preg_replace() ..or you can use http://php.net/DOM also for that.

[boen_robot]

Do you have to use sockets? You could simply use DOMDocument's loadHTMLFile() method, or a plain fopen() call, combined with PCRE.

[Ustag]

I'm experimenting with socks, learning this and that ^^ but thank you both.