markvaughn2006 Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 i'm fairly fluent in php but don't really know where to even start with this....so please don't bite my head off for not posting code :-\ i just need a point in the right direction Example: if a user types in MSFT i need to be able to go to http://www.google.com/finance?q=msft (i know how to do this part) but then i need to be able to return just the price which in the source of that page is.. <span class="pr"> <span id="ref_358464_l">29.77</span> so i just need to have it so a user types in MSFT on my site and it goes to http://www.google.com/finance?q=msft, grabs the price ($29.77) and spits it out all on my site without the user actually being sent to google finance, a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!!!! love you guys, lifesavers!! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/196386-pull-data-from-another-site/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
litebearer Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 page scraping perhaps... http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/web-scrape-with-php-tutorial Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/196386-pull-data-from-another-site/#findComment-1031128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markvaughn2006 Posted March 24, 2010 Author Share Posted March 24, 2010 wow...thanks! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/196386-pull-data-from-another-site/#findComment-1031159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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