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HOLLYWOOD TOP TEN
Type:	application
Added by:	npguy2001
Entered:	08/07/2001
Last modified:	07/12/2000
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Views:	6093
Extract Hollywood Box Office Results from http://www.hollywood.com and output to file! An excellent example of regular expression using array.
<? 
 /* -----------------------------------

                               Purpose:

                               Regular Expression Example.

                               

                               This Example grabs the 

                               http://www.hollywood.com/movies page TOP TEN list movies and output

                               to .htm file. 

                                 

                               Example by: npguy@my-deja.com

                               npguy is a Python, PHP and Perl lover. done several utilities in C/C++.

                               he lives in butwal, nepal.    

                               --------------------------------------- */   

                             

                            /*--- URL to extract the information. ---*/
 $url = "http://www.hollywood.com";  
 $output= "hollywood.htm";    
 /*Array contain the different regular expression later 

                            replaced by according to $replace array. 

                            */
 $search = array ("'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",  // Strip out javascript..just for security

                                             "'Weekend'",

                                             "'#000066'",  //Border colour 

                                             "'<a href[^>]*?>'si",  // Strip <a href>

                                             "'<a*?>'si",  // </a> tag                 

                                             "'([rn])[s]+'"  // Strip out white space

                                             );  

                            
 $replace = array ("",

                                      "Hollywood",

                                      "'#003366'",

                                              "",

                                              "",

                                              "\1");

                            
 /*--- Join array elements with a string..i did with n ---*/

                                $string = implode("n", file($url)); 

                            
 /*-- Some unique starting text or tag to grab the text --*/

                                $string1 = explode("<!--//    box office winners    -->", $string); 
 /*-- Some unique ending text or tag to end grabbing --*/

                                $string2 = explode("<!--//    special offers    -->", $string1[1]); 

                               

                                //$ttt=$string2[0];

                            

                                $final_text = preg_replace ($search, $replace, $string2[0]);

                                

                                $buffer="<!-- Start of Top 10 hollywood  -->";

                                $buffer.="<br><center>";

                                $buffer.= $final_text;

                                $buffer.="<!-- End of Top 10 hollywood  -->";

                                $buffer.="</center>";

                                

                                $fp = fopen ("$output", "w");

                                if(!$fp){

                                echo "Error while generating...$output ";

                                die;

                                }

                                fwrite($fp,$buffer);

                                fclose($fp);   

                                   
 ?>
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