On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, Mike Mackrory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an interesting question. > > I wrote an Access application a year or two ago that I'm looking at rewriting > as a web app. One thing I'm not sure I can move over to a web app is a tool I > put together to let the users extract data from web pages. > > In the Access App, I open a browser window, they can log into the secure > site, find the page with the data they need, then click a button and the > program then takes the HTML source, parses out the necessary info and then > loads it into the local database. > > Does anyone know if this is possible to do using PHP or JavaScript. Using an > IFrame would be perfect, but since the site they want to extract the info > from is on a different domain this doesn't appear to be possible. Anyone have > any idea's of how I could do this? The big obstacle is just finding a way to > get the source code of the web page being viewed. > > Thanks > > Mike >
You can get the source of the page by using fopen. http://us.php.net/fopen And like Wade said, you can use Curl to handle the logging in and stuff. http://us.php.net/curl Dave _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
