How to copy text from another URL and display

sheckysreturn

I would like to copy the rates from the page at : www.planipret.com
and then display them onto my own page. The info is actually in 2 divs.

Im using this code someone made for me but the display needs to be formatted or output in a loop. This code is too advanced for me to alter.

thanks anyone who can offer help.

<?php

$sCacheFile  = 'rates.cache.html';
$sQuery      = "//div[@class='sidebarlight' or @class='sidebardark']";
$sWebsiteUrl = 'http://www.planipret.com/';
$sAlternate  = '<a href="http://www.planipret.com/" target="_blank">Check on the Planiprep Website</a>';
$b****sBroke = false;

$oDoc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');

$sWebsiteContents = @file_get_contents($sWebsiteUrl);
@$oDoc->loadHTML($sWebsiteContents);
$oPath = new DOMXPath($oDoc);
$oPath->registerNamespace('html', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml');
$oList = $oPath->query($sQuery);

// store/load from cache
if ($oList->length === 0) {
    $sHtml = @file_get_contents($sCacheFile);
} else {
    $sHtml = '';
    foreach($oList as $oNode) {
        $oNodeDoc = new DOMDocument();
        $oNodeDoc->appendChild($oNodeDoc->importNode($oNode,true));
        $sHtml .= $oNodeDoc->saveHTML();
    }
    file_put_contents($sCacheFile, $sHtml);
}

$b****sBroke = (strlen($sHtml)==0);
if ($b****sBroke) {
    print($sAlternate);
} else {
    print($sHtml);
}

bradgrafelman

As per that site's legal notice section:

2. Copyrighted Material. Material on this web site may not be copied, reproduced, re-published, downloaded, uploaded, posted, transmitted or re-transmitted, communicated to the public by telecommunication, distributed, or modified in whole or in part, whether in text, graphical, audio, video or executable form, except with written permission of Site Owner. If you require further information on the permitted use or license to use the material contained on this web site, please address your inquiry to Planipret chartered real estate broker, 215 boul Saint-Laurent, Suite 107, Saint-Eustache, QC J7P 4W4.

As such, what you're asking about doing is illegal (e.g. copyright infringement), assuming you haven't obtained a license from the company to use their data on your website. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you haven't, because if you had, I would bet that they have some sort of external API available rather than letting you rely on "screen scraping" (one of the worst ways to get external information, IMHO).