Using PHP to retrieve data from a web page

Anon

Hi guys,

I am the first to admit I don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to write a page that will do a couple of things, but I'm stuck on the first. The things I'd like to do are :-

Grab the team member names, yesterday's percentage, and overall percentage from here

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5/tmember.php3?team=10018262

Visually show a pie chart for yesterday's percentage for each team member, and overall percentage contributed by each member.

Any ideas on how to grab the data?

Thanks a lot

Rich

Anon

Grab the team member names, yesterday's
percentage, and overall percentage from
here

You'll need to use the regular expression functions to parse through the data. Tricky, but possible. Easier if you can get the person who set up the page to put placeholders on the page. But if you can get them to do that, it would be just as easy to get them to create RDF dumps, or even better, XML files from the data.

Visually show a pie chart for
yesterday's percentage for each team
member, and overall percentage contributed
by each member.

You'll need to use the image functions for this. Never used 'em, never will. Sorry. 🙂

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Anon

Any chance of some basic sample code to get us started? I really don't have a clue about this at all!

Thanks

Rich

Anon

Sorry so lame but here goes nothing...

try this to get started.

Anon

Sorry so lame but here goes nothing...

try this to get started.

Anon

Here's what i would do, there's probably a better way to do it.

$page = join( '', file('http://stats.distributed.net/rc5/tmember.php3?team=10018262'));

use that to get the page, then I would look at the html source and find markers in the page to signify start and end of significant data you need. use substr to do that.

most likely use str_replace, depending on the info. do all that to get it in an array (maybe using parse_str). that way you can output it anyway like.

but i don't know about pie chart...

Xiaoxin