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Kenny Pollock

May 1 2006, 03:57 AM

I'm using JavaScript to fill out a form with a car's year, make and model after they enter a VIN number.
I came up with:

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$url = file_get_contents( 'http://www.carfax.com/cfm/check_order.cfm?vin=' . $_GET['vin'] . '&partner=UNK_1_DEC_31&zipcode=&ClickID=&SiteID=&suggest=N&FID=&PopUpStatus=0' );

$array = explode( 'Year/Make/Model:', $url );

$array2 = explode( 'Manu', $array[1] );

$replace = array( '', '<tr>', '<td align="left" valign="middle">', '</td>', '', '<td width="150" align="left" valign="middle">', '<tr bgcolor="#E3E3E3">' );

$replaced = str_replace( $replace, '', $array2[0] );

$break = explode( '</tr>', $replaced );

echo trim( $break[0] );

I was wondering, is there a more effecient way to doing this? I'm thinking using preg_replace or something I could get just what I need, instead of stripping everything I don't..but I'm not too familiar with this.

May 1 2006, 09:05 AM

In PHP I've found that 4-5 explodes commonly will be faster than a single regexp, so most likely you're best off doing what you do now. I don't know if I'd use file_get_contents however, since it's pretty slow; maybe you should consider cURL (has better support for many things, including gzip, making it faster).

Brendon Koz

May 1 2006, 04:20 PM

Since you suggest cURL, know of any DECENT online tutorials (beginning to advanced) out there? I can't figure out how to get it to work.

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