curl and parsing suggestions needed

[rgremill]

I need some help trying to figure out how to do this with PHP.

I want to create a PHP program that downloads a web page and parses out all of the colors used within that web page.

I am able to download a page using CURL, but not the included CSS files. I guess I need to do those separately?

Is there a parsing function I should use to extract the colors?

Any ideas would appreciated.

[boccio]

Interesting problem.

As for CSS, suppose the easiest way is to look for <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" (...) /> line and extract CSS filename with preg_match(). Then, use cURL in next iteration to fetch CSS file...

Now, colors can come in many flavors. Are you seeking for text colors, bground colors, or literally everything? Bottom line, you have to use series of preg_match() to find all HTML / CSS variations and extract colors...

[rgremill]

Yes. I want to grab all colors. (except image colors, of course)

[rgremill]

Where's the best tutorial on preg_match()? Thanks!

[rgremill]

If anyone's interested, I wound up using:

preg_match_all('/#[0-9a-f]{6}/', $buffer, $matches);

which works ok if the hex has a pound sign in front of it.

Now I'm trying to find the correct regex code to use to find something like bgcolor='336699' or bgcolor=336699 or bgcolor="336699".

Any regex experts out there???