Scrape a particular area of site content With a Secure Login - html

Question

I am trying to scrape some particular text of a website which is login secured
here is the tutorial on this using curl
http://www.digeratimarketing.co.uk/2008/12/16/curl-page-scraping-script/
But I am unable to implement this into my curl codes
here is my curl script
$url = "http://aftabcurrency.com/login_script.php";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$cookie = 'cookies.txt';
$timeout = 30;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"user_name=user&user_password=pass&passcode=code");
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$source = $result;
if(preg_match("/(CC3300\">)(.*?)(<\/font>)/is",$source,$found)){
echo $found[2];
}else{
echo "Text not found.";
}
for example in aftabcurrency.com I only wish to scrap only "Our Services Matters!" (this text changes every day)

Answer 1

what I would do is to "cut out" a text between start and beginning... in the source the text is starting by a text color 613A75 and ands with the closing < /font> tag.. here is a regex solution:
$source = file_get_contents("http://aftabcurrency.com/index.php");
if(preg_match("/(613A75\">)(.*?)(<\/font>)/is",$source,$found)){
echo $found[2];
}else{
echo "Text not found.";
}
if you want to do this with your text inside member area, add my source here to your source and replace the $source = file_get_contents... with $source = $result
there is also other way to do this, DomDocument and xpath or simple strpos / strstr / substr php functions.