[SOLVED] GRAB TEXT FROM YAHOO ??

[salman_ahad@yahoo.com]

I need to know the first news heading on news.yahoo.com

 

I need PHP code or script in my webpage which grabs words from Yahoo.

 

Any CODE SNIPPET PLEASE

 

[mrMarcus]

i'm pretty sure Yahoo offers an API with access to their news headlines .. look for "Yahoo News API" or something along those lines.

 

otherwise, you'd be screen-scraping, and it wouldn't be nearly as efficient.

[salman_ahad@yahoo.com]

I am able to grab text with this code

 

<?php

$urlpage = 'http://xyz.com/';

$filetext = fopen("$urlpage", "r");

while (!feof($filetext))

{

$theline = fgetss($filetext, 2048);

echo "$theline<br>";

}

fclose($filetext);

 

?>

 

How do I grab some specific words, I don't need everything.

 

[mrMarcus]

i don't doubt that it can be done, it's called screen-scraping .. however, i was just suggesting a more efficient (possibly legal) way of accessing Yahoo's data, via their API.

 

you could use preg_match()/preg_match_all(), or if you have an array full of words you want to match, you could use in_array() .. of course there's more involved that just that, but i'm not going to just write you a full script now, am i.

 

what is it you are trying to do exactly with the content you are grabbing, anyways?