retrieving Picks via php

Hi, i am trying ti attempt to make my first script, and i am having trouble reching the Profile Picks in my profile.

I seem not to be able to get to the picks as its too far away. i canly get 4096 characters, and the picks is beyond, i am totally stumped as to how people are reaching and checking picks.

the ac tual script will check at certain times to see if a pick exists, i have everything written
but this eludes me.

Thanx in advance.

Take a look at this library script: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Random_AV_Profile_Projector
It gets a profile picture and put it on display.
It is a very fancy script and probably not someone's first script

Hmmm, sounds like quite a heavy project for your first script

I have run into a similar problem and solved it by using a script hosted somewhere outside of SL that gets the large file for me, then cuts off a lot of text I am not interested in and sends a smaller page to my script inside SL.

you need to parse the world.secondlife.com/resident/<key> adress with an external PHP script, just use a regex expression to search for the title and a few key words in the front and have it return true or false if found or not... or if you want the whole text, have it return everything starting with the matching text title for the pick up to the next hyper link. AFAIK this is 100% reliable (knock on wood)

PS, anyone know if there is a more recent 'new' search web address? the old one I have is
http://secondlife.com/app/search/search.php?site=People&q=Avatar
and doesn't seem to be available any more