fgetcsv problem

johnh

I've recently been getting my stock alerts via a simple program I wrote which asks yahoo for a specific symbol which used to return a simple string in a csv format. Recently they have change this to actually force a download of this data instead of simply displaying it. How can I retrieve this data now? Is there a way for me to accept this download?

Thanks
John

rrijnders

What do you mean when you say <i>force a download of this data </i>? They can't force anything on you, they can only change the headers on the data they are sending you which you can skip, ignore, whatever.

-- Rich

johnh

Hmm. As you said, one can change the headers to prompt for a download, and this is what I mean. If I type in the url directly, which used to simply display the text, it now prompts me with a save as dialoge.

How can I bypass this and simply accept the text from my fpopen() statement?

Here is my code.

$fp = fopen ("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MSFT&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv","r");
while ($data = fgetcsv ($fp, 10000, ","))
{
blah blah blah
}
fclose($fp);

Thanks
John

Richard A. Rijnders wrote:

-- Rich

rrijnders

I don't understand what error you would get, your program should be working. The prompt you get in a browser is because they are downloading a mime-type your system says to prompt for. Your program, however, should work.

-- Rich