Menu
Here is my problem. I am creating a website which has a "news" tab. What i want on the news tab is updated content from another news website.
Is there any way to grab plain text posted on another website, post it on a news tab in my website, and update automatically when the website posts new content? Can anybody push me in the right direction so i can learn how to do this?
I know HTML very well, but lack skill in PHP and Javascript. What do i have to learn in order to pull this off?
585
Look up Curl... it is in php. http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
Here is a nice video on it, that might be related to something you're trying to pull off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvEJz6du7R0
Here is also some code, to get the source code of a website using curl.
<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://www.example-webpage.com/file.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $content;
?>
One more way of doing what you want, is to use an iframe within a div...
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#container{
width:300px;
height:100px;
border:1px solid #000;
overflow:hidden;
margin-left:50%;
margin-top:5%;
}
#container iframe {
width:1000px;
height:750px;
margin-left:-734px;
margin-top:-181px;
border:0 solid;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<iframe src="http://www.w3schools.com/" scrolling="no"></iframe>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Some websites don't allow you to iframe their site, so this might not work. Example, you can't iframe google, youtube, yahoo, and others.
Hope this helped :D
161
This book has a section that demonstrates reading of data from another website and parsing it using PHP. Chapter 10, pg 328 "Accessing other websites".
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Advanced-Object-Oriented-Programming-QuickPro/dp/0321832183/
Though, if you're new to PHP, and advanced Book is no place to start. I would recommend either of the following to get you started down that road.
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Dynamic-Web-Sites/dp/0321784073/
or
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Web-Visual-QuickStart-Guide/dp/0321733452/
You may be able to cobble together what you need using the Advanced book, but the best way to use advanced skills is to start learning as a beginner!
25
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
