Displaying stock price

Minti · #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 04:36 PM

Hi there,

I am currently trying to get the stock price to display on a webpage and have it refresh every 5 minutes. I am a bit of a newbie to programming so i have been given some sample code and guidelines.

First of all i have the html page:

HTML Code:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">
    <head>
                <title>Default</title>
                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csse.css" />
                <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="jse.js"></script>
    </head>

    <body onLoad="loadPrice()">
        <div id="HTMLResults"></div>
    </body>
</html>

This is calling a javascript file.

Now i need some help on how to write a javascript function in a seperate file that queries a url that i have been given.
"Please see second post below"
And return and display the symbol and the stock price.

Also how would i go about getting it to refresh every five minutes?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers for taking the time to read this.
Minty

Minti · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 04:37 PM

Stock price URL:
http://products.stockpoint.com/servl...es?symbols=gsk

**Jordan** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 04:43 PM

To display the symbol you would just need to do:

HTML Code:

document.write(quote[0]);

The easiest way to refresh a page every xx amount of minutes is to simply put this in the <head> segments:

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

If you want to use JavaScript though you can use this function: The JavaScript Source: Page Details: Refresh Page - Automatic

Minti · #4 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 05:47 PM

Cheers for the reply.

A few questions

First of all how would i also display the stock price from that link.

And for the refresh i know i have shown a full html page but how i am actually going to do it is so that a section of a div refreshes therefore i need it to be done through javascript. So is the link you gave able to do this for me or should i be looking at something else?

Taa

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