/* step 1: download the page content */
$default_opts = array(‘http’=>array(
‘method’=>”GET”,
‘header’=>”Accept-language: en\r\n” . “Cookie: foo=bar”,
‘proxy’=>”tcp://http-proxy.mycompany.com:80″));
$def = stream_context_get_default($default_opts);
$dzone_content = file_get_contents(‘http://www.dzone.com/links/f_programming_fast_guide.html’);

/* step 2: parse it! */
$votes_up = get_match(‘/class=”ldStats-up”>(.*)/isU’, $dzone_content);
$votes_down = get_match(‘/class=”ldStats-down”>(.*)/isU’, $dzone_content);
$views = get_match(‘/(.*)/isU’, $dzone_content);
$clicks = get_match(‘/(.*)/isU’, $dzone_content);

/* step 3: echo */
echo ‘Up Votes: ‘,$votes_up,”;
echo ‘Down Votes: ‘,$votes_down,”;
echo ‘Views: ‘,$views,”;
echo ‘Clicks: ‘,$clicks,”;

/* helper: does regex */
function get_match($regex, $content){
preg_match($regex, $content, $matches);
return $matches[1];
}