Get info from a site with PHP

Hi,

I was wondering if this is possible. Maybe someone could push me towards
the right direction.
Let's say i'm making site B, that gets a few numbers from site A.
Is this possible? Site A has everything in tables.

Also an extra part: it has to log in.

I'm not asking the coplete solution, just a little push.

TIA.

J.
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In article <Dai_c.236083$ZL.12053557@phobos.telenet-ops.be>, Jean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if this is possible. Maybe someone could push me towards
> the right direction.
> Let's say i'm making site B, that gets a few numbers from site A.
> Is this possible? Site A has everything in tables.
>
> Also an extra part: it has to log in.

http://www.php.net/curl


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Jean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if this is possible. Maybe someone could push me towards
> the right direction.
> Let's say i'm making site B, that gets a few numbers from site A.
> Is this possible? Site A has everything in tables.
>
> Also an extra part: it has to log in.
>
> I'm not asking the coplete solution, just a little push.

You can use wget (with help of system()) to fetch the data from the remote
site to your site B.


//Aho

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:03:47 GMT, Jean
<bleh@boeitmijniet.be.blah.com.boe.bah.bleh.zie.je .eindigt.met.punt.invalid>
wrote:

>I was wondering if this is possible. Maybe someone could push me towards
>the right direction.
>Let's say i'm making site B, that gets a few numbers from site A.
>Is this possible? Site A has everything in tables.
>
>Also an extra part: it has to log in.
>
>I'm not asking the coplete solution, just a little push.

Certainly possible, since you can open URLs with PHP, e.g. with fopen.

However, it's probably easier with Perl, as WWW::Mechanize and
HTML::TableExtract are particularly good at this sort of thing.

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Jean <bleh@boeitmijniet.be.blah.com.boe.bah.bleh.zie.je .eindigt.met.punt.invalid>
wrote in message news:<Dai_c.236083$ZL.12053557@phobos.telenet-ops.be>...
>
> I was wondering if this is possible.

Yes.

> Maybe someone could push me towards the right direction.

Well, here's a little problem:

> Also an extra part: it has to log in.

Since you forgot to mention what authentication mechanism the target
site uses, it is difficult to suggest anything in particular.

Cheers,
NC

Hello,

On 09/04/2004 09:03 AM, Jean wrote:
> I was wondering if this is possible. Maybe someone could push me towards
> the right direction.
> Let's say i'm making site B, that gets a few numbers from site A.
> Is this possible? Site A has everything in tables.
>
> Also an extra part: it has to log in.
>
> I'm not asking the coplete solution, just a little push.

You may want to try this HTTP client class that you can use to retrieve
pages and also submit forms and collect cookies that are passed to the
next pages which is something that you most likely need to login that site:

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient


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"Jean"
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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if this is possible. Maybe someone could push me towards
> the right direction.
> Let's say i'm making site B, that gets a few numbers from site A.
> Is this possible? Site A has everything in tables.
>
> Also an extra part: it has to log in.
>
> I'm not asking the coplete solution, just a little push.

http://www.php.net/stream_context_create