[SOLVED] Getting information from outside sources?

[al3x8730]

I'm not sure whatsoever if this is possible, but would it be possible to get information from another page. Say a who's online list, and take them information somehow, and post it on your site?

[BlueSkyIS]

maybe, depending on what page and how the text is displayed (HTML, javascript, image?) if it's HTML, you could grab the page using curl functions, parse the HTML, and display the content as you like.

[al3x8730]

Well, how would I go about getting information from a page like: http://game.endless-online.com/playerlist.html And get something that will take that who's online.

[DarkWater]

cURL to grab the file, and regex to parse the content out.

[al3x8730]

cURL to grab the file, and regex to parse the content out.

 

Am I going to have to look that up or can you help me? Or is it complicated? I don't know how to do that at all :|

[DarkWater]

The cURL is easy, the regex is not.  Go to the manual page for cURL and get that working (if you REALLY can't get cURL working, I'll give you some code to start, but it's pretty simple).  And then I'll try and help with the regex.

[al3x8730]

The cURL is easy, the regex is not.  Go to the manual page for cURL and get that working (if you REALLY can't get cURL working, I'll give you some code to start, but it's pretty simple).  And then I'll try and help with the regex.

 

Um, which curl function do I use?

[DarkWater]

Check out curl_init(), curl_setopt(), and curl_exec().

[al3x8730]

Check out curl_init(), curl_setopt(), and curl_exec().

 

I'm looking at it... Can you help me out some? I really don't know what to do

[DarkWater]

Something like this would suffice:

 

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://game.endless-online.com/playerlist.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
?>

 

Understand it?

 

EDIT: Fixed an error with curl_exec();.

[al3x8730]

Something like this would suffice:

 

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://game.endless-online.com/playerlist.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec();
?>

 

 

 

 

Understand it?

 

Not really xD I've been going through php tutorials on and off for quite some time. I know a lot of functions, just not that.

[sasa]

try

<?php
$test = file_get_contents('http://game.endless-online.com/playerlist.html');
//echo $test;
preg_match_all('|<td width="155"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="155"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="50"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="100"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="70"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td>|is',$test, $out);
print_r($out);
?>

[al3x8730]

try

<?php
$test = file_get_contents('http://game.endless-online.com/playerlist.html');
//echo $test;
preg_match_all('|<td width="155"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="155"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="50"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="100"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td><td width="70"><font face="Arial" size="2" color ="#111111">\s+(.*?)</font>\s+</td>|is',$test, $out);
print_r($out);
?>

 

Thanks a lot, it works. Accept it's just a bundle of mess. How would I go about sorting it? Into an organized list.

[sasa]

in 1st subarray (index0) is all data

in 2nd is name then title ,lvl, experience, gardner

foreach ($out[0] as $k => $v){
echo 'name: ', $out[1][$k], ', title: ', $out[2][$k], ', lvl ', $out[3][$k], ', experience: ', $out[4][$k], ', gardner: ',$out[5][$k], "<br />\n";
}

[al3x8730]

in 1st subarray (index0) is all data

in 2nd is name then title ,lvl, experience, gardner

foreach ($out[0] as $k => $v){
echo 'name: ', $out[1][$k], ', title: ', $out[2][$k], ', lvl ', $out[3][$k], ', experience: ', $out[4][$k], ', gardner: ',$out[5][$k], "<br />\n";
}

 

Where would I insert that into the script?

[al3x8730]

in 1st subarray (index0) is all data

in 2nd is name then title ,lvl, experience, gardner

foreach ($out[0] as $k => $v){
echo 'name: ', $out[1][$k], ', title: ', $out[2][$k], ', lvl ', $out[3][$k], ', experience: ', $out[4][$k], ', gardner: ',$out[5][$k], "<br />\n";
}

 

Where would I insert that into the script?

 

Nevermind, I got it, thanks a lot!

[natbob]

$r = new HttpRequest($webpageToGet);
$r->send();
$res = $r->getResponseBody();

 

will also work, it uses the HTTP class/extension