PHP Expert needed

[acctman]

hi can anyone point me in the right direction as to how i can code the following in php

1. open a text file... scan and look for a link/string that starts with the following "<http://images.domain.com//myImages/" (random characters in between) and ends with an ">" so basically find

"<http://images.domain.com//myImages/qwerty.jpg?223423&ID=userJoE>" and
strip it down to "http://images.domain.com//myImages/qwerty.jpg?223423&ID=userJoE"

then download that image to a folder. I can do this with no problem using VC.net or VB.net but does anyone have an idea as to how it's done in php?

i probably can figure out the parsing part but the image download not sure how to do that. but any help will be greatful.

[grumpy]

$handle = fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose($handle);

[acctman]

i think my biggest problem is having the script process http://images.domain.com//myImages/q...423&ID=userJoE and download the image qwerty.jpg

[LazyD]

There are many ways to do it, for the parsing part try google (search for regex)

To write the file, this is easiest way imo :

$pictureURL = "http://www.gofuckyourself.com/skins/realitycash/images/newthread.gif";
$file = implode("", file($pictureURL));
$handle = fopen("newthread.gif", "w+b");
fwrite($handle, $file);
fclose($handle);

[acctman]

thanks for all the help

[kaktusan]

hello acctman,
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Thanks!