call the latest news

fenor

Hi,

I wanna call the latest news of this page and put them on a new page.

What code should I use?

Thanks for helping

Drakla

If your server allows it, could be as simple as

echo file_get_contents("http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/news/archive.php");

fenor

Originally posted by Drakla
If your server allows it, could be as simple as

echo file_get_contents("http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/news/archive.php");

I need only the latest 3 to be displayed

Drakla

Hit The Deck! This is the flimsiest, most weak solution to anything I've ever done, but it'll work.

$data=file_get_contents('http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/news/archive.php');
$cheap=explode('<tr', $data);

echo '<table>';
for($i=1; $i<=6; $i++)
	echo '<tr'.$cheap[$i];
echo '</table>';

There's no bounds checking, it could better be done with regular expressions, but my tea is almost cooked

Drakla

Right, I've had my tea and an attack of concience so use this instead - the preg match sucks out all of the table row tags

$data=file_get_contents('http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/news/archive.php');

$rows = preg_match_all("'<tr[^>]*?>.*?</tr>'si", $data, $contents);

if($rows>6) $rows=6;

echo '<table>';
for($i=0; $i<$rows; $i++) echo $contents[0][$i];
echo '</table>';

fenor

I have put this:

<?php

			$data=file_get_contents('http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/news/archive.php');

$rows = preg_match_all("'<tr[^{>]?>.?</tr>'si",} $data, $contents);

if($rows>6) $rows=6;

echo '<table>';
for($i=0; $i<$rows; $i++) echo $contents[0][$i];
echo '</table>';

Is it correct?
I don't get anything anyway: http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/

Drakla

Yes, that's right. Put that anywhere in a page where you want their table to show - you can also add extra details to the table tag for width, border etc if you need it. Or you could just put the code into a function and then just put <?php show_news(); ?> wherever you wanted it.

fenor

as I said I dont see anything on the index page.
I should see the links to the 3 latest new on the right where I put the code, but I dont

Drakla

Ok - check if allow_url_fopen is allowed on your machine - either check phpinfo() or try this and tell me what it says

<?php
	if( ini_get('allow_url_fopen') )
		echo "Yes, you can";
	else
		echo "no, you got some work to do";
?>

If it says no then you'll have to fetch the data from that page with another method like sockets

fenor

<?php
$data=file_get_contents('http://www.javierzanetti.altervista.org/news/archive.php');

$rows = preg_match_all("'<tr[^{>]?>.?</tr>'si",} $data, $contents);

if( ini_get('allow_url_fopen') )
echo "Yes, you can";
else
echo "no, you got some work to do";
?>

So the code to put now is the one above?
Sorry but I am totally outside the knowledge of php so u should tell me exactly what to put please. 🙂

fenor

help

brownrl

I would wrap that up in a ajax call of some sort and load after the main page has loaded.

I find it helps for user experience when you do these third party things.

Plus if they ever ban your site from grabbing theirs then you always first show a "loading...." then show a "Error from other site: javierzanetti.altervista.org".

That will hurt their page rank for being poopy heads.

Regards,