php & CURL - how to

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I am "playing" with an idea, but it might use curl which I am not too sure about, but can fathom my way round most. I can curl a page and get the contents - that's OK, but can you curl a page and get "specific" contents say a variable string or array? Reason for asking is I do a lot of updating to a few sites but most of that is "common" and it now makes sence to only do the updates once and then have the sites curl them.

In a cURL you're just getting the server to do a HTTP request, so you'll get all the content of the page. Will need to parse and find what you want from it. — DMin
– DMin, Commented Aug 4, 2010 at 14:01

Your Common Sense · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-04 13:08:13Z

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use an RSS feed instead of that nonsense with HTML parsing.

answered Aug 4, 2010 at 13:08

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Im0rtality · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-04 12:58:12Z

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You can get content with cURL and then use Regular Expressions to extract exactly what you need

answered Aug 4, 2010 at 12:58

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Benoit · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-04 13:42:46Z

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Or use SOAP or any other WS implementation to centralize your content management system

answered Aug 4, 2010 at 13:42

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Purefan · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-04 13:53:40Z

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I second the RegExp approach, and another solution could be the Dom parser: http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php

answered Aug 4, 2010 at 13:53

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