A challange...

[marting]

Hi,

A PHP question from a PHP beginner..

I was wondering if its possible to retreive information from a webstite (text), and put this in a variable in PHP.
So for example brwosing to the site :

http://www.testsite.com/getdata.asp?value=1
(just a fake url to explain things)

will put some plain text on your screen.

I am actually trying to get some specific information from this text. So the text output for this site could be something like:

{variable text}
..
..
..
<FIXED TEXT> <DAYHHMMSS> <DATA>
..
..
..

The information I am after is in the <DATA> part and has a fixed length of 5 characters.

This data consists of 2 values put together as one number of 5 characters, for example 21010.
in this case 210 is a part and 10 is a part (or an other example 09005 = 090 and 05)
With these two values I need to do some calculations.

On top of this all, the variable part of the website [ getdata.asp?value=1 ] value=1 can have other values to retreive other sets of information. I need to retreive the page a couple of times with different "?value=" values...

A lot of questions, maybe there is someone that could give me a start..

thanks!
Martin

[luxluxlux]

Originally posted by marting
Hi,

A PHP question from a PHP beginner..

I was wondering if its possible to retreive information from a webstite (text), and put this in a variable in PHP.
So for example brwosing to the site :

http://www.testsite.com/getdata.asp?value=1
(just a fake url to explain things)

You can retrieve remote sources with PHP's standard file commands, for example:

<?php

$data = file_get_contents ('http://...');

?>

From there it's just a matter of parsing the page. If it's in a known format, that shouldn't be a problem.

Hope this helps get you started.

Cheers,

Lux

[drawmack]

or for better control you can use [man]curl[/man]

[marting]

Thanks all,

I've got it working ..
(you can see it here )