I want to take information about songs and albums from other web sites...how ?

[jd2007]

how is that web fetching done, what functions to use, can i access their database ?

[cooldude832]

1st ask if you are allowed, but if you are there are different ways (usually not through their db) odds are you will have to manually create a php script that nabs each "band" off a search in their site via fopen or cURL and then copy the data into your database.

[jd2007]

thanks..pls show me a good example of fopen 

[cooldude832]

basically the idea is you copy and paste off a page, but using string mainipulations

fopen() can open any url like

fopen(http://www.google.com/?serach=php);

if you know xml the idea would be to find those xml tags like if its

<band>Creed</band>

you find the tag <band> and then the tag </band> and say give me the text between it and call that $band make sense?

[jd2007]

yeah i get it...thanks...so if i type this :

 

<song>Rocket Man</song>

 

i can find the words rocket man on the site...

 

[jd2007]

i want to take this:

 

Label: Supreme Records

Catalog#: S 512

Format: Vinyl, 7"

Country: Belgium

Released: 1972

Genre: Rock

Style: Pop Rock

Credits: Producer - Gus Dudgeon

Notes:

Rating: No votes yet. Rate It

Submitted by: Evilist

 

from the site : http://www.discogs.com/release/479714

 

 

pls show me how to code it

[ss32]

find the first index of "Label", and then the index of the newline character after "submitted by".  those are some fairly simple loops... they shouldnt be hard.

 

substring the page with those obtained indices

 

explode the new string by the newline / "<br />" character

 

foreach of the exploded strings, split it among the ":" character, and then store those into an associative array.

 

thats the basic idea.

[jd2007]

just show me an code example of the above.

[jd2007]

never mind, i can do it myself.