News Headline Pickup

[Anon]

On my website I am wanting to setup a feature that automatically "picks up" headlines from the following location http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/pickup/txt/National.txt

The script would then take the html link and the headline, but not the date and the author and display it on my site.

Since I am new to PHP I don't know how to code this and would very much appreciate a working example so that I can figure the rest out for myself.

Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

http://jrap.org/php/other/globeandmail.php.txt

and to see it working, check
http://jrap.org/php/other/globeandmail.php

Hope that is what you wanted.

[Anon]

Nice quick work there, Robp.

One enhancement that you might want to consider is caching the results as a local textfile for some appropriate period of time, so every page view doesn't require a hit on the Globe and Mail servers.

[Anon]

Yea, good idea.

You could add
$file = fopen("headlines.txt", "w");
fputs($file, $headlines);
fclose($file);

and than add a cronjob with:
0 /1 lynx -dump http://www.url.com/to/thescript.php

(which would upgrade every hour)

and than wherever you want the news to be displayed, use
<?include("headlines.txt")?>