Question Reguarding an Echo from msnbc.com

8mycsh

I have a weather scrip I am developing and I am having some problems with it returning the info. The script pulls the weather from msnbc and mathches it to variables in my page to display the weather.

Here is the code that I am using to retrieve info from msnbc

function WeatherIndex($tp) {
global $accid, $tp;

$fa = fsockopen("www.msnbc.com", 80, &$num_error, &$str_error, 30);
if(!$fa)
{ print "Weather is not available: $str_error ($num_error)\n"; }
else
{
fputs($fa,"GET /m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=$accid HTTP/1.0\n\n");
$answer=fgets($fa,128);

It takes 5 minutes to load the page.

If I remove the http1.0 it takes 1/2 sec to load the page but it also loads the info in plain text at the top of the page.

can someone help??
If you need to see the entire code let me know.

yahelb

try to separate this task into 2 scripts.

first script loads the data (say every 5 minutes) from msnbc.
and another to read it from local file, parse and show the data to the user.

8mycsh

Would you be willing to help me seperate this into 2 files? I am still fairly new to php and I am getting over my head.

Or can you point me in a direction of a tutorial that would help me.

Weedpacket

First of all, remember that http responses contain a header section, which is everything up to and including the first blank line, and then the actual content of the response begins.

So when you read the response, you'll probably want to throw everything away until you get to the blank line, and then there will follow the bit you're trying to read.

On the other hand, you don't really need to do this socket communication yourself for this purpose: you can just use fopen("http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=$accid", "r") instead and use fgets() on that. That will take care of the header for you.

All that said, of course, all I get when I look at that page (with and without a value for "acid") with a browser is a random bit of Javascript. Are you sure you've got the right page?

8mycsh

If you follow this link it will diplay the weather in text format

www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=CAXX0282

Then from there the php script displays the weather in my page.

Thanks for your help.

I think I can get this thing working..if not you will hear from me.
😃