reading partial code from external site

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Hi,

I am trying to write a script for my website to get an article from an external website. The external website has the article in a set of tags <roottag> & </roottag>

The code I am using is
Code: $page = file_get_contents($url);
preg_match_all("/<roottag>.+</roottag>/", $page, $matches);
print_r($matches);
when this code runs the below is output: -

Array ( => Array ( ) )
I've not used this function in php and am a bit stuck! so any help is really appreciated

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