Hi Matt,
@ 12:31:35 AM on 5/21/2001, Matt Broughton wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty porting this code from perl to php...can
> anyone give me a hand?
Briefly..
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> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # Quick and dirty Yahoo movie showtimes grabber
> use LWP::Simple;
> my $content =
> get("http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/showtimes.html?z=florence%2C+sc&r=sim
> ");
Use fopen() function.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
> my $text = '';
> if ($content) {
> $content =~ s{.*<!-- movies module -->(.*)<!-- /movies
> module -->>.*}{$1}gism;
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
> my @lines = split(/\n/, $content);
Use explode() function.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
> my $act = '';
> foreach (@lines) {
http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php
Slightly different foreach syntax.
> next if m{^</{0,1}(table|tr|td)};
> next unless ($act || /<!-- theater -->/);
> if (/<!-- theater -->/) {
Could use switch() here. Also see perl compatible regular expressions
manual link above. Same thing for the string replaces below.
> print "\n";
> $act = 'theater';
> next;
> }
> elsif (/<!-- .*? movie -->/) {
> $act = 'movie';
> next;
> }
> elsif (/<!-- show info -->/) {
> $act = 'info';
> next;
> }
> elsif (/more theaters/i) {
> $act = 'done';
> last;
> }
> # Strip font tags
> s{</{0,1}font.*?>}{}gi;
> # Strip HR's
> s{<hr>}{}gi;
> # Strip non-breaking spaces
> s{( )+}{ }gi;
> s{<p>}{<BR>}gi;
Use strip_tags() function.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php
Also:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php
> if ($act eq 'theater') {
> # Remove links to Yahoo theater stuff
> s{<a.*?>(.*?)</a>}{$1}gi;
> # Remove Map It link in favor of a linebreak
> s{map it}{<BR>}i;
> # Small-italicize anything that's not the
>theater's name
> s{^(.*)$}{<SMALL><I>$1</I></SMALL>} unless m{<B>}i;
> }
> elsif ($act eq 'movie') {
> s{<a href="(.*?)">}{<a
> href="http://movies.yahoo.com$1";>}gi;
> }
> $text .= "$_ \n";
> }
> }
> else {
> $text .= '<P>Movie information is unavailable at this time.';
> }
> print $text;
-Brian
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