[RESOLVED] Extract data from a different website

[Arc]

Is it possible for PHP to parse another wesite and extract some data from it?

For instance, I have a website that sells gold jewelry and i would like the price of the jewelry to change based upon the price of gold that day. I want to get the price of gold from a different website by parsing its page and extracting the price and then do my caculating in PHP and display the new price automaticaly each time the page is loaded.

Is this possible? If not, what language would I need to use?

Thanks!

[konrad]

It's possible - you've got to get the content of the website (for exemple by using file_get_contents or curl library ) and parse it with regular expressions. It would be even easier to construct xml parser. You can get prices from rss feeds as well.

[Arc]

Thanks a lot! Great info.