[thelist] PHP html Feed modifying/parsing

[Jay Blanchard]

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1) Have the server download the page every hour and store it locally on 
my server.
2) Search it to find the text <a href= ... </a> AFTER a certain point 
in the document <---startlist--> for example.
3) Save that information to a file that can be easily included on pages.

I assume the first part would need some kind of cron job or something 
different than php.  Not really sure how I'd implement that.  If 
absolutely necessary I could set something up to do it once a day.  The 
important part is step 2.

I'm not asking you to do this for me, but if you could give me a link 
to a tutorial which i've had trouble finding via google or at least a 
list of the functions I'll need in PHP.  I've been looking through the 
PHP.net manual and there's 10 billion str functions.
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Have a look at the CURL functions in PHP for retrieving the HTML. Then
you can use regex to locate your start and end points, etc.

HTH!

Jay