str_replace stuff

Hi all!

I'm trying to grab content from my myspace profile with php and fopen. I
just want the url of my friends profile and the url of their myspace
thumbnail so i can load them into flash as a variable. example string output
desired:
&friend1=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=495 8197&image1=http://myspace-668.vo.llnwd.net/00102/86/66/102536668_s.jpg

so far my progress: http://serverspeed.com/grabmyspace.php

this is the code I have so far:

<?php
$URL =
'http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=441 6517';
// my profile
$Start = ' <table width="435" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="5" align="center">';
$GrabEnd = ' </table>';

$file = fopen("$URL", "r");

$r = file_get_contents($URL);

$stuff = eregi("$Start(.*)$GrabEnd", $r, $content);

fclose($file);


$content = str_replace('<tr>', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('<td bgcolor="FFFFFF" align="center" valign="top"
width="1">', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('<table border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">',
'', $content);
$content = str_replace('<td bgcolor="FFFFFF" align="center" valign="top"
width="107" style="word-wrap:break-word">', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('<table border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">',
'', $content);
$content = str_replace('&nbsp;<a href="', '&link1=', $content);
$content = str_replace('</a>&nbsp;', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('</td>', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('</tr>', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('<td bgcolor="FFFFFF" align="center" valign="top"
width="25%"><a href="', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('<td bgcolor="FFFFFF" align="center" valign="top"
width="25%"><a
href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=',
'', $content);
$content = str_replace('<img src="', '&img1=', $content);
$content = str_replace('"></a><br>', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('<DIV style="width:80px;height:20px;" ID="', '',
$content);

$content = str_replace('</div>', '', $content);
$content = str_replace('</table>', '', $content);


echo $content[1];

?>

I appreciate any help on this. I'm getting better at programming but I still
get in over my head from time to time.

Michael wrote:
> I appreciate any help on this. I'm getting better at programming but
> I still get in over my head from time to time.
>

Remember that less = more; to get all thumbnail links, simply do:

$base = 'http://profile.myspace.com';
$path = '/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=441 6517';
$pattern = '|(http://myspace-\d+.vo.llnwd.net/[\d/]+_s.jpg)|';

$contents = file_get_contents("$base$path");
preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches);

print_r($matches);


JW