Dynamically pulling data from one page to another

[rammac13]

What I want to do is dynamically get the information from one of my website statistic pages and put it into a table on another page. Is there a way to do this? Thanks

[revraz]

CURL?

[redarrow]

what about file_get_contents() function...........

 

or soap

[rammac13]

I am very new at PHP are there any cURL tutorials or file_get_contents() function...........

 

or soap?

[DarkerAngel]

I have a cURL function that makes it really easy to use, I could give you the code, but if the file contents are on the same server I suggest using file_get_contents();

 

$string = file_get_contents($filename);

[rammac13]

Well I got the cURL to work. The Problem Is in all my Stats sites I and Others have to log in to be able to see them. I can't figure out a way to get past this. any Ideas?

[DarkerAngel]

you can use cURL to submit form data, then the session and cookies are

 

/**
* cURL Quick Client
*
* @param string $url URL To access
* @param array $postdata Data Array to Send to Page in POST Form
* @param string $refer Referring URL
* @return string HTML Document or Text returned from the site.
*/
function gethtml($url, $postdata = false, $refer = false) {
	$ch = curl_init(); 
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url );
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
		if($postdata) {
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$postdata);
		}
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $refer);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
	$html = curl_exec ($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
	return $html;
}

$content = gethtml($url, $postdata, $refer);
echo($content);

[CroNiX]

Personally I would just use AJAX for this.  If you are using a decent framework like mootools/jquery it would be simple.  You can even grab a table from a page by using its ID and not have to parse the whole page or use a lot of php code filtering what you don't want to appear.