jskarr1982

Is it possible to log into a secure page to perform a web crawl? I have the code to crawl, it's just that it's on a password protected page. Also, is this secure doing this? Or can someone potentially hack into the secure page?

Excellent!! That solved the problem. Thank you so much for teaching me how to properly do this!

Dan, Thank you so much! It works now, however it doesn't stop at the ending </td>. It keeps on going. Does PHP pick the first </td> or is that not specific enough for it to know when to stop? It pulls up the whole page after the price that I want to grab. My example is at: http://www.northernnightsweb.com/crawl Thank you!

I am trying to pull content from an ASP file if that makes any difference?

I figured out to \ before any /. Now the string: <?php $file = file_get_contents("https://www.amark.com/spotpricesst.asp"); $do = preg_match('/<nobr><a href="" onClick="NewWindow2(\'\/includes\/viewproduct.asp?ID=10\',\'SpotPrice_INFO\',610,300,\'0\',\'yes\',\'center\'); return false;">1 oz<\/a><\/nobr><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/td><td class="spotsborderbottom"><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td width=100%><\/td><td class="spotsnoborder">(.*)<\/td>/', $file, $matches); if ($do) { print $matches['1']; } else { echo "No Price"; } ?> Simply doesn't find the target code. Do you think it's just too buggy?

Dan, I am a beginner in this so I thank you for letting me know about that. My new code is now: <?php $file = file_get_contents("https://www.amark.com/spotpricesst.asp"); $do = preg_match('/<a href="" onClick="NewWindow2(\'/includes/viewproduct.asp?ID=10\',\'SpotPrice_INFO\',610,300,\'0\',\'yes\',\'center\'); return false;">1 oz<\/a><\/nobr><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/td><td class="spotsborderbottom"><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td width=100%><\/td><td class="spotsnoborder">(.*)<\/td>/', $file, $matches); if ($do) { print $matches['1']; } else { echo "No Price"; } ?> However I get: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 'n' in /home1/northes3/public_html/crawl/index.php on line 3 No Price I am not sure what the "n" is that it refers to?

Hello, My code: <?php $file = file_get_contents("https://www.amark.com/spotpricesst.asp"); $do = preg_match('/<a href="" onClick="NewWindow2('/includes/viewproduct.asp?ID=10','SpotPrice_INFO',610,300,'0','yes','center'); return false;">1 oz<\/a><\/nobr><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/td><td class="spotsborderbottom"><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td width=100%><\/td><td class="spotsnoborder">(.*)<\/td>/', $file, $matches); if ($do) { print $matches['1']; } else { echo "No Price"; } ?> Is to pull the price of gold from this website, however the coding I am using includes an =. Is there a way to go around this? I receive the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home1/northes3/public_html/crawl/index.php on line 3 Thank you!

This works out perfectly! Thank you so much for all the help.

Hello, Using the numbers format I got to the following which doesn't work: <?php $file = file_get_contents("http://www.apmex.com"); $do = preg_match('/<span id="ctl08_ctl05_gvMetals_ctl02_label3">(.*)<\/span>/', $file, $matches); if ($do = true) { $no_dollar = preg_replace('/[\$,]/', '', $matches); print $no_dollar['1']; $dollar = $no_dollar['1']*1.02; // english notation without thousands seperator $english_format_number = number_format($dollar, 2, '.', ','); // 1234.57 print $english_format_number['1']; } else { echo "No Price"; } echo "\n<hr />Price multiplied with 1.02 is ",$no_dollar[1]*1.02; ?> Thank you, Jeremy

2 decimals, not denominators; sorry!

@ Crayon Violent and sasa, thank you so much! I've been spending the past days pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. I got it to work with multiplication and addition, but how do I get it to show as such: $1,111.11. Where it has a dollar sign, comma, and only two denominators? Thank you so much for getting me to this point! Jeremy

Hello! I am working on a script to fetch a price of metal, remove the dollar sign, and then multiple or add it by a number. My current code I created is as follows: <?php $file = file_get_contents("http://www.apmex.com"); $do = preg_match('/<span id="ctl08_ctl05_gvMetals_ctl02_label3">(.*)<\/span>/', $file, $matches); if ($do = true) { $no_dollar = preg_replace('/[\$]/', '', $matches); print $no_dollar['1']; } else { echo "No Price"; } ?> I got the script to pull a current value and then remove the dollar sign, however I need to multiply it by a value (Say, 1.05). I've tried for several days without anything more than a 0 result. Any suggestions? Thank you so much, Jeremy