Data from different web site

lina2401

Hi!
I really need help with this!
We have a web site (original) where the data are organized in categories (to view any report you need to select a category) and updated daily! What I need is to create a new webpage, under different domain and server, where the data will be gathered from the previous web page but previewed as a raw data without this category selection! These data should not be stored anywhere in the new server it should be automatically updated or linked to the previous (original) web site.
My question is how can I do this?! Any help will be appreciated! Thanks

stolzyboy

http://www.php.net/fread

lina2401

What if I want to get the data from many pages (all at once) and I want to fetch a specific table from the page?
Is this possible?

stolzyboy

"anything" is possible... but you'll have to parse thru it accordingly

lina2401

How can I say I need to select this table from this page?

Weedpacket

Depends on the format of the page and the table. How would you do it if you were doing it by hand? Write a program to do that.

lina2401

I would do it in this way:
-Search the whole page for table with id=table1
-extract the table
-display the table

lina2401

I tried the following:
<?php

$open = fopen("http://www.yahoo.com/index.html", "r");

// the above statement opens up the yahoo! page using the socket libraries and reads it,
// fopen takes the pages as the 1st arguement and type of opening (r in this case) as the 2nd

$read = fread($open, 15000);

// fread scours to the 15000th byte and captures all the encountered bytes into $read

fclose($open);
?>

and I got these errors

Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in C:\apache\htdocs\test\news.php on line 3

Warning: fopen("http://www.yahoo.com/index.html","r") - Bad file descriptor in C:\apache\htdocs\test\news.php on line 3

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\apache\htdocs\test\news.php on line 8

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\apache\htdocs\test\news.php on line 12
News HeadLine (No. 1) :

PLEASE HELP!