html stripping

No this is not some shaddy game or strip poker knock-off. My question has to do with a person project I have started. I have a script that grabs names and ids from a database, puts them in an array and then based on that grabs a URL and parses that URL for this name, drops all the html crap, and takes the information/stats and insert or updates the stats table. Problem is on certain names the page that it is parsing is different, and so I get loads and loads of extra HTML, and one name in particular doesnt return all the stats. More detail is: ################################################################### CODE $start=$name; $end='</td></tr>'; $start_position=strpos($myLine, $start); $end_position=strpos($myLine, $end)+strlen($end); $length=$end_position-$start_position; $myLine=substr($myLine, $start_position, $length); $myLine=str_replace("</a>","",$myLine); $myLine=str_replace("</td><td class='content'>","|",$myLine); $stats=explode("|", $myLine); ############################################################################ I write all this to log what it is getting back and that is how I know that basically on some of these names its return the full page. I'm really at a loss, anyone have any ideas? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/