Hämta information från annan sida via Curl

<?
function curl_string ($url,$user_agent){

        $ch = curl_init(); 
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);  
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
        $result = curl_exec ($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $result;
    
} 
function pattern ($start, $stop, $string){
	$pattern = "/" . $start . "(.*?)" . $stop. "/i";
	preg_match($pattern, $string, $result);
	return $result[1];
}
	$user_agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)";
	$user = "Sanchez";
	$url = "http://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=character&name={$use...";

        $text = curl_string($url,$user_agent);
	$text=str_replace ("\n", " ", $text);
	

	$sex = pattern('Sex:<\/TD><TD>','<\/TD>', $text );
	$name = pattern('Name:<\/TD><TD>','<\/TD>', $text );
	$date = pattern('Created:<\/TD><TD>','<\/TD>', $text );	
	
	echo "Sex: ". $sex."<br>";
	echo "Name: ". $name."<br>";
	echo "Created: ". $date."<br>";
	
	?>