using php to get data from another webpage

ok.. what i'm trying to do now is part of a major project. this script needs to be able to find data on a specific webpage, through their hi-scores system (in particular, runescape.com) this will probably require lots of information from runescape's creators themselves.. this needs to be able to query a player name and find all the stats, and put them in an array in which they can be used and updated from time-to-time.. does anyone understand this?

here is an example of the page i want to obtain data from, but instead of this particular username, the username that is requested already in the script itself

Example of Hi-Scores Search Result

ok i have found a working script that finds the data from that site, but how would i take this data and write it to my database after retrieving it?

Code:

<?php 
$handle = fopen("http://hiscore-web.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/hiscorepersonal.ws?user1=".$_GET['name'],"r"); 
if($handle){ 
   while (!feof($handle)) { 
   $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);} 
fclose($handle);}
/////////////////////////////////////////////
/////Cruel's sexy parsing functions./////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////
function GetRank($skill)
{ $str1 = strstr($GLOBALS['contents'], '>'.$skill.'<');
if(strpos($str1, 't"')>40){return '';}
$pos1 = strpos($str1, 't"')+3; 
return substr($str1, $pos1, strpos($str1,'<',$pos1)-$pos1);} 
function GetLvl($skill)
{ $str1 = strstr($GLOBALS['contents'], '>'.$skill.'<');
if(strpos($str1, 't"')>40){return '';}
$pos1 = strpos($str1, 't"',strpos($str1, 't"')+1)+3;
return substr($str1, $pos1, strpos($str1,'<',$pos1)-$pos1);}
function GetXP($skill)
{ $str1 = strstr($GLOBALS['contents'], '>'.$skill.'<');
if(strpos($str1, 't"')>40){return '';}
$pos1 = strpos($str1, 't"',strpos($str1, 't"',strpos($str1, 't"')+1)+1)+3; 
return substr($str1, $pos1, strpos($str1,'<',$pos1)-$pos1);}
function parse($skill){return GetRank($skill).'-'.GetLvl($skill).'-'.GetXP($skill);}
echo parse(Overall).'|'.parse(Attack).'|'.parse(Strength).'|'.parse(Defence).'|'.parse(Hitpoints) .'|'.parse(Ranged).'|'.parse(Prayer).'|'.parse(Magic).'|'.parse(Cooking) .'|'.parse(Woodcutting).'|'.parse(Fletching).'|'.parse(Fishing).'|'.parse(Firemaking) .'|'.parse(Crafting).'|'.parse(Smithing).'|'.parse(Mining).'|'.parse(Herblore) .'|'.parse(Agility).'|'.parse(Thieving).'|'.parse(Slayer).'|'.parse(Runecraft).'|'.parse(Farming).'|'.parse(Construction);?>

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I guess putting those values in the database is the easy part.

Just INSERT into a table the values that you echo in the last line of the snippet you posted

ok i've got this all figured out thanks guys

How is this working for you? I'm looking for something like this myself. I've got some data on one of my sites that is retrieved and viewed, but what I don't like is that this data is not showing up in the search engines because it is displayed thru a javascript...

yeah this script i found gets the correct data no matter what player is requested, if you want a version of it -- PM me

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