Reading data from CNN

[webn]

Hello

I need data from CNN to my own site. Suppose, I want to know about IRAQ.when I enter the word 'IRAQ' in search box and I get many news each of them consisting a header, brief description and a web link for detail of the news.

I want first 5 news with the above three sections from CNN to my site without going CNN.

How can I do it? Please provide me information.

[bpat1434]

so this url: http://search.cnn.com/pages/search.jsp?query= is the base query URL. What you then do, is set in your own query term (url-encoded) and retrieve the info.

Now, the easiest way is with [man]file_get_contents/man
and then extract 5 "news items" from that.

Each search result takes the following form:

<tr><td valign=top width=10 class=cnnResults align=right><!-- RESULT NUMBER -->.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td valign=top class=cnnResults align=left>
<b><a href="http://cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/10/sr.fri/index.html"><!-- TITLE --></a></b>
<span class="resultsDate" style="color:#666666;"> <!-- DATE --></span>
<br><!-- DESCRIPTION --><br><br>
</tr></td>

SO from that you can write a simple regex, to get only results 1 - 5. Alternatively, you could use a loop, but it's not necessary if you want a fixed number.

The regex would look something like:

<tr><td valign=top width=10 class=cnnResults align=right>([1|2|3|4|5]{1})\.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td valign=top class=cnnResults align=left>
<b><a href="http://cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/10/sr.fri/index.html">([a-zA-Z0-9\:.-\'\")</a></b>
<span class="resultsDate" style="color:#666666;"> \(([0-9.]*)\)</span>
<br>([a-zA-Z0-9\:-.\s'\"]*)<br><br>
</tr></td>

Then, just use [man]preg_match/man or [man]ereg[/man] and get the results into an array. From that array, you display how you want on your site.