[coxy66]

NOTE : Sorry if this is in the wrong forum? I wasn't sure so I just put it here.

Hey guys, long time lurker. I've been teaching myself a bit of basic php through this site for a while now (I just search through the forum to find some helpful scripts ideas, lol). I was wondering if you guys could help me out with a little something?

Basically, i've set up a trial website (based around a Goal Line Blitz football team) - www.ottawa-rapids.co.nr that i'm going to try to start scripting with. I'm trying to find out if I can just grab a piece of information from another website everytime it updates itself. For example "tackles" on this page : http://goallineblitz.com/game/player...ayer_id=189296. I'm pretty sure this is probably obvious to most of you guys, but i'm a total noob with this stuff, sorry. Anyway, I was wondering if one of you kind souls could possibly walk me through how to do this? BEWARE - I class myself as a complete beginner, lol.

Thanks in advance guys!

[hansk]

Hi,
I guess the only way to do this, is to load the source code of the page into a variable using the file_get_content() function and parse the text out by string functions or/and regular expressions. Unfortunately this won't probably work on the link you posted, beacuse you need to be registred to view that page. Hope I helped you.

[coxy66]

Ah okay I see. Thanks for that mate, yeah. You did help me

[theighost]

well you can study curl functions which allow you to save a foreign web page as your own page at your own server thus control it as your own...

after saving it to ur sever use fopen to take data from it..and use strpos and substr to specify the exact location.

i will give you the exact code to help you save the page to your server,anyway...you will have to find a way to login !

PHP Code:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"htt[://the-domain-u-want-to-open.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // times out after 4s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "f=mysearchstring");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result =curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
  $fp=fopen("name-of-file-u-want-to-save-on-ur-server.php",w);
  fwrite($fp,$result); 

if you open the file "name-of-file-u-want-to-save-on-ur-server" like this: http://www.my-domain.com/name-of-fil...-ur-server.php

you will see that it displays the exact info on the other site without redirecting you there.

after this as i told you u open the file and take the info you want.

you may want to refresh your page often so use a loop or something

regards!