Getting data feild from another source

[nutt318]

I wanted to know if there is a way that I can get a value from a table on another site and transfer that info to my site. Basically the site I want to get info from is a website that has stock prices, and I would like to get a certian field from that site to put on my site.

 

So basically you can go to my page and it will pull these vales from the other site. I have an example that did work at one time but now for some reason it is no longer working. I am not sure why its not working but if there is another way to do the same thing it would be helpful.

 

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

function find_values ($string, $page)
{
$string = preg_quote($string, '#');

// takes everything from the given string to end of row
preg_match("#$string(.*)</tr>#Us", $page, $match);

// Get the values from the row we found previously
preg_match_all("#<span[^>]*>([^<]*)</span>#s", $match[1], $values);

// Return the values	
return $values[1];
}

$find1 = find_values('Nymex Crude Future', $contents);
echo "Nymex Crude Future: Price = $find1[0], Change = $find1[1], & Change = $find1[2], Time = $find1[3]<br>";

$find2 = find_values('Dated Brent Spot', $contents);
echo "Nymex Heating Oil Future: Price = $find2[0], Change = $find2[1], & Change = $find2[2], Time = $find2[3]<br>";

$find3 = find_values('WTI Cushing Spot', $contents);
echo "Nymex RBOB Gasoline Future: Price = $find3[0], Change = $find3[1], & Change = $find3[2], Time = $find3[3]<br>")>


?>

[phpQuestioner]

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[nutt318]

I have tried searching many places but nothing is making sense. Does anyone know what is wrong with my code?

[nutt318]

Can anyone else tell me what is wrong with my code? Or does anyone have any other way of doing this?