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I need some help 2 extract an email from a page

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:04 am
by butchhh
I have a website and i want 2 give my users a way 2 see other users e-mail but the problem is that i have more infos there than the user all i want is the e-mail for example i need a box where u type an user, and that box will ad that user name 2 a link like: https://www.mywebsote.com/dfdsfd6565userid=USERHERE and after the loading of that page r some infos but what i need is 2 extract just the e-mail from that loaded page.

Ill reappy apreciate if someone can help me

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:10 am
by feyd
I'm quite confused by your post. Can you ask your question(s) again with more explaination and proper English please?

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:11 am
by Chris Corbyn
I read your post like 3 times and it still makes no sense 8O There's like one full-stop (period) in that whole post ;)

You want to allow users to view others users email addresses (presumably agreed by the users!). Where does extracting an email address from a page come into it? What code have you tried so far? Maybe that would help to clear up the confusion as to what you're aiming to do.

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:48 am
by butchhh
i have a link(this link must be hidden from users) with infos about the users like e-mail address, home address, phone etc and i need some kind of php that will extract from the link just the e-mail address...and i was thinking about a form with a box where i enter the userid and the script will extract just the e-mail adress and shows it to you. the link its something like this https://www.mysite.com/userid=JhonDoe and here ull see all info about jhon doe but i need that script 2 extract the e-mail address af the userid u enter in that form box.
in other words i enter a string in the form and the script connects 2 the link and extratcs only the e-mail .

sry for my bad english im really stressed hope this will help more ill update if u need more info thank you

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:56 am
by jayshields
Do you have the email address stored in any kind of database? If not, and you do actually intend to just lift it off a random page, you will probably need some sort of regexp. Although this is long-winded and it would probably be better in the long-run if you put your users data into a database of some sort.

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:57 am
by Chris Corbyn
Why does the link need to be "hidden" from users when you could put security restrictions in place to stop users from accessing it's content? ;)

Where is the data coming from in the first place? Out of a database I'm guessing, so read the data from the database, not from the page.

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:07 pm
by butchhh
the info comes from a database that i dont have access, i have just link access thats the problem i got this script for the variable userid

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$id=mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['userid']);
$query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE id = '$id'") or die (mysql_error());
$row=mysql_fetch_array($query);

echo $row['email'];
hope this helps

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:01 am
by butchhh
i did the mail extract thing by using iframe in php and the link its hidden what i still cant do is that box where u enter the user at the end of the link after userid= and will redirect 2 that iframe.