Help parsing website with curl / preg_match

[Aaron]

How do I save the data from a web site so I can parse it using curl?
Here is what I have so far:

$url="www.test.com";

$post_data = array();
$post_data['var1'] = "val1";
$post_data['var2'] = "val2";

$o="";
foreach($post_data as $k=>$v)
{
$o.= "$k=".utf8_encode($v)."&";
}

$post_data=substr($o,0,-1);

$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$parttern="/<TABLE>(.*)<\/TABLE>/";
@preg_match($pattern, ????????, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

What would I use for the preg_match?

[ZeldorBlat]

On Mar 22, 1:22 pm, "Aaron" <[e-mail]:

How do I save the data from a web site so I can parse it using curl?
Here is what I have so far:

$url="www.test.com";

$post_data = array();
$post_data['var1'] = "val1";
$post_data['var2'] = "val2";

$o="";
foreach($post_data as $k=>$v)
{
$o.= "$k=".utf8_encode($v)."&";

}

$post_data=substr($o,0,-1);

$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$parttern="/<TABLE>(.*)<\/TABLE>/";
@preg_match($pattern, ????????, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

What would I use for the preg_match?

You need to:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

Then, curl_exec($ch) will return the output (and, in your code above,
put it in $result).