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<blockquote data-quote="Brackson" data-source="post: 227034" data-attributes="member: 34747">[PHP]&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;?phprequire_once 'simple_html_dom.php';// Download here http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/simple_html_dom.php/download // It parses the HTML so we can get the div from the source easier thank using regular expression.&nbsp;$url = &quot;http://xenon.pw/?novote&quot;;// The URL of the retro that you want to use.&nbsp;$html = file_get_html($url);// Gets the HTML source of that link and stores it in a variable.&nbsp;$ret = $html-&gt;find('div[id=online]');// Finds the div where online user count is stored.&nbsp;$onlineusers = (strip_tags($ret[0]));// Converts the div into non-markup'ed text.&nbsp;$onlineusercount = filter_var($onlineusers, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);// Takes the number of users online in just number format and stores it in a variable.&nbsp;echo $onlineusercount;echo &quot; users online!&quot;;// This is what comes after the number of users.?&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;[/PHP]&nbsp;If someone wanted to use the PHP code without it being in the HTML markup, then they can. I'd rather not though. I fixed the body tags, although I only put &lt;html&gt; in there to show that it was an .html file. I took your advice and used require_once, as it's more efficient.&nbsp;I also added where you take only the numbers of the users online and then you can add something after it. (ex: &quot;7 user(s) online&quot;, vs &quot;7 users online!&quot;, or honestly pretty much &quot;7&quot; anything), becuase I realized that this could cause some conflict with the diversity of how retros display this type of information.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brackson, post: 227034, member: 34747"] [PHP] <!DOCTYPE html> <body> <?php require_once 'simple_html_dom.php'; // Download here http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/simple_html_dom.php/download // It parses the HTML so we can get the div from the source easier thank using regular expression. $url = "http://xenon.pw/?novote"; // The URL of the retro that you want to use. $html = file_get_html($url); // Gets the HTML source of that link and stores it in a variable. $ret = $html->find('div[id=online]'); // Finds the div where online user count is stored. $onlineusers = (strip_tags($ret[0])); // Converts the div into non-markup'ed text. $onlineusercount = filter_var($onlineusers, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); // Takes the number of users online in just number format and stores it in a variable. echo $onlineusercount; echo " users online!"; // This is what comes after the number of users. ?> </body> </html> [/PHP] If someone wanted to use the PHP code without it being in the HTML markup, then they can. I'd rather not though. I fixed the body tags, although I only put <html> in there to show that it was an .html file. I took your advice and used require_once, as it's more efficient. I also added where you take only the numbers of the users online and then you can add something after it. (ex: "7 user(s) online", vs "7 users online!", or honestly pretty much "7" anything), becuase I realized that this could cause some conflict with the diversity of how retros display this type of information. [/QUOTE]

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