Getting Info from other URL's

cheyner11

I am having trouble getting a stock quote from a website and posting it on my website. Here is the code I am using now, and it wont pull the info out. Would anyone have any revisions to this code using the URL posted in $theurl. I need to get the latest stock quote.

Thanks

<?php

// choose stock to look at

$symbol='Breakwater Resources';

echo "<h1>Stock Quote for $symbol</h1>";

$theurl='http://www.tdwaterhouse.ca/quote.jsp?s144=stocks%2Fstocks.overview.txt&ssn=o&sn=s&i9=625&sTier=temp&slanguage=English&sIssue.Ticker=bwr&scountry=ca&x=6&y=16';

if (!($fp = fopen($theurl, 'r')))
{
echo 'Could not open URL';
exit;
}
$contents = fread($fp, 1000000);
fclose($fp);

//echo $contents;

// find the part of the page we want and output it

$pattern = "(\\$[0-9 ]+\.[0-9]+)";

if (eregi($pattern, $contents, $quote))

{
echo "$symbol was last sold at: ";

echo $quote[1];

} else
{
echo 'No quote available';
};

// acknowledge source
echo '<br />'
.'This information retrieved from <br />'
."<a href=\"$theurl\">$theurl</a><br />"
.'on '.(date('l jS F Y g:i a T'));

LordShryku

Beware the TOS:

All information in this Website is protected under the copyright laws of Canada and/or other countries. Users of this Website shall be entitled to copy any information for their own personal use but may not republish or reproduce any such information in any manner, including electronic reproduction by "uploading" or "downloading", without the prior written consent of the TD Bank Financial Group. Otherwise, no one has permission to copy, redistribute, reproduce or republish, in any form, any information found in the pages of this Website.

cheyner11

Thanks for the heads up. TD Waterhouse is only an example, eventually this information would be coming from the TSX exchange. And TD Waterhouse cannot copyright public information regarding the public stock exchange. That is why this information is freely available via there website, www.tdwaterhouse.ca.

Thanks again for your disclaimer tip. 😉