How to attain the contents of a div from an external web pag

[karlmarsh05]

Hi please help me

I am trying to basically echo the entire contents of a div located on an external file. The div contains text, images and links.

My existing method currently displays nothing when I execute the script. Why? Inspect element in google chrome also displays literally nothing!

<?php

$file = "http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/digitalzoneonline";

$data = file_get_contents($file);

preg_match_all ("/<div id=\"Content\">([^`]*?)<\/div>/", $data, $listings);

$content = $listings[1];
$total = count($content);
for($i=0; $i<$total; $i++){
echo $content[$i]."";
}

?>

Please please help.

[johnj]

First, verify if the page is actually fetched. Check whether your $data has the page.

Then, start simple. try to use regular expression to match a simple <div> and then try the pattern that you want.