Extract information from a webpage

<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
$fp = fopen('http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=b_o_weekend&dept=Film','r');
if (!$fp) die('cant');
 
 
$read = '';
while (!feof($fp)) $read .= fread($fp,10000);
fclose($fp);
 
$lines = get_items('<td width=20 class=filmOff>','<table>','start',$read);
 
 
$ret = array();
foreach ($lines as $key=>$value)
{
	$ret[] = array(
	'place'=>get_item('<b>','</b></td>','start',$value,'trim'),
	'name'=>get_item('<td class=filmOff>','</td></tr></table>','start',$value,'trim'),
	'distrib'=>str_replace('&nbsp;','',get_item('<td class=distOff>','</td>','start',$value,'trim')),
	'genre'=>str_replace('&nbsp;','',get_item('<td class=genreOff>','</td>','start',$value,'trim')),
	'wbof'=>get_item('<td align=right class=rboWeekendOn>','&nbsp;</td>','start',$value,'trim'),
	'wbof'=>get_item('<td align=right class=rboWeekendOn>','&nbsp;</td>','start',$value,'trim'),
	'cbof'=>get_item('<td align="right" class="dboCumulativeOff" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">','&nbsp;</td>','start',$value,'trim'),
	);
}
 
echo '<pre>';
print_r($ret);
echo '</pre>';
 
 
 
function get_items($start,$end,$explode_first='start',$string='',$callback='',$only='')
{
 
	if (stristr($string,$start)===false) return false;
	if (stristr($string,$end)===false) return false;
 
	$xpf = $explode_first=='start'?true:false;
 
	$tmp = explode(($xpf?$start:$end),$string);
	$tmp = $xpf?array_slice($tmp,1):array_slice($tmp,0,-1);
 
	foreach ($tmp as $value)
	{
		$tmp2 = explode(($xpf?$end:$start),$value);
		if (!$xpf)
		{
			$help = array_map('htmlentities',$tmp2);
		}
 
		$items[] = $tmp2[($xpf?0:(count($tmp2)-1))];
	}
	if (!empty($callback)){
		$items = array_map($callback,$items);
	}
		
	if (!isset($items))
	{
		echo 'ITEMS NOT DEFINED IN SEARCH : '.htmlspecialchars($start).' - '.htmlspecialchars($end)."\n";
	}
	return $items;
}
 
 
 
function get_item($start,$end,$explode_first='start',$string='',$callback='',$only='',$nr=0)
{
	$var = get_items($start,$end,$explode_first,$string,$callback,$only);
	if ($var===false) return false;
	return $var[$nr];
}
 
 
?>