RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
thanks again all, The data will be the whole web page and I have to extract out the current share pricing etc, probaly grab thier sexy chart as well (was told you can take what you want as long as you use thier guidlines which they provide apon contact) I suppose I could use imlib or gd to generate my own graphs as well joy (c: I was told by our Internet manager that the problem does lies in our protection on our border ie: firewall, once he has allowed me some access to the outside world I should be able to do this :-) I'm sure I will have plenty of questions when it comes time to parse the html (oh my god). Regards Joseph -Original Message- From: Donny Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 4:55 PM To: Joseph Blythe Subject: RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages Yes, This shouldn't be too hard to do; work out what type of data it is you're grabbing from the ASX site - ie. is it just that image, or is there a form or something? You can open the page directly in PHP using fopen, Regexp will let you grab out whatever the data is... An alternative is to use strip_tags Hope that helps some, Donny -Original Message- From: Joseph Blythe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages Hey all, I got a bit of a problem I need to be able to grab info (which has been approved) from the Australian Stock Exchange Website (www.asx.com.au) all they say about this in the information they sent me is: To obtain your share price data you will need to get your IT department to write a java object or a com active x object to strip out the unnecessary html so that you are just left with your share price information. LOL I am the IT department (well part of it) and I don't use or would even recommend using these products not that there is anything wrong with them, furthermore even if I did this does not help me very much (c: I was sort of wondering if there is a way to do this sort of thing with PHP? the only other information I have is the URL in the form of: http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/chartsS earch.jsp? searchBy=asxCodeTimeFrame=DasxCode=ASX I tried a quick test using the filesystem functions with no success, I was sort of hoping for a 'Yes' / 'No answer maybe if 'Yes' just a quick explanation. Any help would be much much appreciated. Regards, Joseph Blythe Web Development BoldFX / Binary Logic The LOGICAL Choice! 750 Port Road Beverley Phone: +61 08 8244 1800 Fax: +61 08 8244 1811 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
To obtain your share price data you will need to get your IT department
to write a java object or a com active x object to strip out the unnecessary
html so that you are just left with your share price information.
Why don't they make this available via XML? Parsing HTML is painful.
I was sort of wondering if there is a way to do this sort of thing with PHP?
the only other information I have is the URL in the form of:
http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/chartsSearch.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeTimeFrame=DasxCode=ASX
That just shows a chart. How are you supposed to parse anything out of
that?
I tried a quick test using the filesystem functions with no success, I was
sort of hoping for a 'Yes' / 'No answer maybe if 'Yes' just a quick
explanation.
$fp =
fopen('http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/chartsSearch.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeTimeFrame=DasxCode=ASX','r');
should work just fine to get the HTML.
-Rasmus
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RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
Thanks all (c: Why don't they make this available via XML? Parsing HTML is painful. Was my exact question to them (c: That just shows a chart. How are you supposed to parse anything out of that? Hehe I provided the wrong url should something like: http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/CompanyInfoSearch Results.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeallinfo=onasxCode=asxcompanyName=principalAc tivity=industryGroup=0 I tried it as suggested heres the output: Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/asx/public_html/index.php on line 9 Warning: fopen(http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/CompanyInf oSearchResults.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeallinfo=onasxCode=asxcompanyName=prin cipalActivity=industryGroup=0,r) - Bad file descriptor in /home/asx/public_html/index.php on line 9 Trust them to make it as hard as possible using Java Slowdown Pages :-)) Will keep trying. Regards, Joseph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
This script worked fine for me here: ? $fp = fopen(http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/CompanyInfoSearchResults.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeallinfo=onasxCode=asxcompanyName=principalActivity=industryGroup=0,r;); while(!feof($fp)) echo fgets($fp,1024); fclose($fp); ? Firewall in the way perhaps? -Rasmus On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Joseph Blythe wrote: Thanks all (c: Why don't they make this available via XML? Parsing HTML is painful. Was my exact question to them (c: That just shows a chart. How are you supposed to parse anything out of that? Hehe I provided the wrong url should something like: http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/CompanyInfoSearch Results.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeallinfo=onasxCode=asxcompanyName=principalAc tivity=industryGroup=0 I tried it as suggested heres the output: Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/asx/public_html/index.php on line 9 Warning: fopen(http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/CompanyInf oSearchResults.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeallinfo=onasxCode=asxcompanyName=prin cipalActivity=industryGroup=0,r) - Bad file descriptor in /home/asx/public_html/index.php on line 9 Trust them to make it as hard as possible using Java Slowdown Pages :-)) Will keep trying. Regards, Joseph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:44, Joseph Blythe wrote: Hey all, I got a bit of a problem I need to be able to grab info (which has been approved) from the Australian Stock Exchange Website (www.asx.com.au) all they say about this in the information they sent me is: To obtain your share price data you will need to get your IT department to write a java object or a com active x object to strip out the unnecessary html so that you are just left with your share price information. LOL I am the IT department (well part of it) and I don't use or would even recommend using these products not that there is anything wrong with them, furthermore even if I did this does not help me very much (c: I was sort of wondering if there is a way to do this sort of thing with PHP? the only other information I have is the URL in the form of: http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/chartsSearch .jsp? searchBy=asxCodeTimeFrame=DasxCode=ASX I tried a quick test using the filesystem functions with no success, I was sort of hoping for a 'Yes' / 'No answer maybe if 'Yes' just a quick explanation. Any help would be much much appreciated. Regards, Joseph Blythe Web Development Seems like PHP has something to do just about anything; in this case you may find striptags is just the bee's knees. -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Real Programmers aren't afraid to use GOTO's. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
hmm just tried exact code still same error, I am going to have to have a little talk to our internet manager as he has done some pretty nasty stuff to our border. what i do find starnge is no errors are produced when I exclude all the query stuff eg: $fp = fopen(http://www.asx.com.au,r;); Thanks again, Joseph -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 3:18 PM To: Joseph Blythe Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages This script worked fine for me here: ? $fp = fopen(http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/CompanyInf oSearchResults.jsp?searchBy=asxCodeallinfo=onasxCode=asxcompanyName=prin cipalActivity=industryGroup=0,r); while(!feof($fp)) echo fgets($fp,1024); fclose($fp); ? Firewall in the way perhaps? -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages
This is true this is exactly why i try and find a solution here first (with PHP), my bosses attitude was to hire java programmers i said 'why?'. I also noticed getss which strips stuff on the read which is kinda cool too (c: Joseph -Original Message- From: David Robley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 3:02 PM To: Joseph Blythe; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Grabbing dynamic pages On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:44, Joseph Blythe wrote: Hey all, I got a bit of a problem I need to be able to grab info (which has been approved) from the Australian Stock Exchange Website (www.asx.com.au) all they say about this in the information they sent me is: To obtain your share price data you will need to get your IT department to write a java object or a com active x object to strip out the unnecessary html so that you are just left with your share price information. LOL I am the IT department (well part of it) and I don't use or would even recommend using these products not that there is anything wrong with them, furthermore even if I did this does not help me very much (c: I was sort of wondering if there is a way to do this sort of thing with PHP? the only other information I have is the URL in the form of: http://www.asx.com.au/scripts/nd_ISAPI_50.dll/asx/research/chartsSearch .jsp? searchBy=asxCodeTimeFrame=DasxCode=ASX I tried a quick test using the filesystem functions with no success, I was sort of hoping for a 'Yes' / 'No answer maybe if 'Yes' just a quick explanation. Any help would be much much appreciated. Regards, Joseph Blythe Web Development Seems like PHP has something to do just about anything; in this case you may find striptags is just the bee's knees. -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Real Programmers aren't afraid to use GOTO's. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
