PHP - Are There Any Browsers That Can Be Embedded Or Wikipedia Perhaps?

I tried to parse wikipedia xml api by different methods, but I was unsuccessful  Even the curl method did not work
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    $url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Wikipedia&rvprop=timestamp|content";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; he; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8");
    $page = curl_exec($ch);
    $xml = simplexml_load_string($page);
print_r($xml);

Hi guys. I have been using the wikipedia API to retrieve information about a topic. Ive managed to get a response and retrieve the first section of the topic (in this case football)

Using this method - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page='.$search.'&redirects=1&format=json&prop=text&section=0');

However the first section that is retrieved includes the pictures and i just want to main text from the introduction.

The code that is sent back from wiki is this -
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Array
(
    [parse] => Array
        (
            [text] => Array
                (
                    [*] => <div class="dablink">This article is about sports known as football.  For the ball used in these sports, see <a href="/wiki/Football_(ball)">Football (ball)</a>.</div>
<div class="thumb tright">
<div class="thumbinner" style="width:227px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Football4.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Football4.png/225px-Football4.png" width="225" height="274" class="thumbimage" /></a>
<div class="thumbcaption">
<div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Football4.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" /></a></div>
Some of the many different games known as football. From top left to bottom right: <a href="/wiki/Association_football">Association football</a> or soccer, <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football">Australian rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_rules_football">International rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby Union">Rugby Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby League">Rugby League</a>, and <a href="/wiki/American_Football" class="mw-redirect" title="American Football">American Football</a>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>The game of <b>football</b> is any of several similar <a href="/wiki/Team_sport" title="Team sport">team sports</a>, of similar origins which involve advancing a ball into a goal area in an attempt to score. Many of these involve <a href="/wiki/Kick_(football)" title="Kick (football)">kicking</a> a ball with the foot to score a <a href="/wiki/Goal_(sport)" title="Goal (sport)">goal</a>, though not all codes of football using kicking as a primary means of advancing the ball or scoring. The most popular of these sports worldwide is <a href="/wiki/Association_football">association football</a>, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word <i><a href="/wiki/Football_(word)" title="Football (word)">football</a></i> applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including <a href="/wiki/American_football">American football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football">Australian rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canadian_football">Canadian football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_football">Gaelic football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league">rugby league</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union">rugby union</a> and other related games. These variations are known as "codes".</p>

I want the code that resides in the <p> tags. How would i go about parsing this and removing the rest. ive tried to get to work simple html dom parser but with no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated 

Thanks,

DIM3NSION

Ok, this is killing me, So I'm finally asking for help.

I'm working on a website, which streams videofiles from external links.

The site plays & allows you to download the videos from the same external link. I need to mask the url of these videos.

At the moment, I have successfully masked the url when downloading. If you click the download image, rather than the path being http://externalsite.com/videofile.avi

its http://mysitename.com/external.php?id=xx&mid=xx

So that is nicely hidden.

However, I am having a problem when it comes to the embedded player on the page. At the moment i am using flowplayer for flv & mp4 videos, and just the usual embed for avi videos.

Flow players embed code is like this

---------------------------------------------------
<a
   href="<?=$videoFile?>"
   style="display:block;width:740px;height:400px;"
   id="player">
</a>

<script language="JavaScript">

flowplayer("player", "<?=url::base()?>flowplayer-3.2.5.swf", {
    clip:  {
        autoPlay: false,
        autoBuffering: true
    }
});
</script>
-----------------------------------------

At the moment, the player only works if i put the url in this format: http://externalsite.com/videofile.avi

and wont work in this format

http://mysitename.com/external.php?id=xx&mid=xx


all download.php does is check the file exists, sets the headers and prompts users to open or save. Why isnt this working with the player?

Please see the attached external.php file for my heade info etc to hopefully shed some light on this

i want to be able to extract a string from a variable when an IMG tag is present and then use the link of the image to create an image tag of it's own to be displayed

let's say i have a string $post which contains the following... (ignoring the quotations)

here is some random text ["IMG"]http://www.somedomain.com/someimage.jpg[/"IMG"] here is some more random text

how would i be able to extract the string inside the [IMG] tags and replace it with a different string in the same position excluding the [IMG] tags such as

<img src=''http://www.somedomain.com/someimage.jpg"/>

any recommendations on how i would be able to do this?

I found the following forum topic and have implemented the solution provided at the bottom:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=310258.0

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<?php 
$cnx = fopen("data/Book1.csv", "r"); //open example.csv
echo("<table>\n\t<tbody>\n"); // echo the table
while (!feof ($cnx)) { // while not end of file
$buffer = fgets($cnx); // get contents of file (name) as variable
$values = explode(",", $buffer); //explode "," between the values within the contents
echo "\t\t<tr>\n";
for ( $j = 0; $j < count($values); $j++ ) {  //
echo("\t\t\t<td>$values[$j]</td>\n");
}
echo"\t\t</tr>\n";
};
echo("\t</tbody>\n</table>");
fclose($cnx); //close filename variable
?>

It works great.  One question though - - what might it take to add an if/else statement that inserted the following for the first row in the CSV file ...

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echo("\t\t\t<th>$values[$j]</th>\n");

... and inserted the following for every row after the first ...

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echo("\t\t\t<td>$values[$j]</td>\n");

This way I can better control my table through CSS.  Any ideas?