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accessing other website data with PHP

Started by LCD344, Oct 31 2010 01:30 PM

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LCD344

Posted 31 October 2010 - 01:30 PM

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i have an interesting problem... im kinda building a sports website, and i want to have a statistics table, but i dont realy want to update it by myself everytime (or lets say i want to build an archive, and dont feel like inputing it all ?) is there any way to access a table or other data from other websites ? i can think maybe downloading the source info by PHP command or something ?

thank you very much
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Alexander

Posted 31 October 2010 - 09:03 PM

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You can use an HTML DOM parser, PHP includes one. The sports web site may include a paid API for external access, as I doubt they would want you to rip their data.

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Posted 01 November 2010 - 11:20 PM

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Hmmm... I'm not sure how legible it is but google "Making a search engine in php" back before my pc got wiped I had some search engine code- you enter a address and it would open the address with the r command (like a .txt file).

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