You might also want to try snoopy. It allows for logging into sites and
retrieving the html code returned. I find it's a little easier to implement
than CURL.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/
http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/snoopy-example.htm
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Mackrory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [UPHPU] Web page data extraction
Thanks guys! I'll have to give this a whirl!
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
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