Pulling data from another website via php

Hey gang,

I have taken over a site for a local hockey team. The previous webmaster did a so-so job, but it is the owners son, so what can I say. Anyhow, I want to pull the league leaders etc.... from the League's mainpage and have it display on the teams page. I have seen this done via php, but I am wondering how it is done and what I need to do.

Is there a script that would do this?

 

<? include('http://www.yoursite.com/yourfile.php'); ?>

thats it.

 

Thanks Dirk,

but how do you get specific data from the page and not all the data. There is a certain portion that I am looking to use.

 

You can use the normal file commands (fopen, fread etc) on URLs, so you could do

$string = file_get_contents("http://www.domain.com/file.html")​

and then use string manipulation functions or regular expressions to extract whatever text you're after.
Bear in mind, though, that this will get all the html tags as well as the text, so you will need to take account of this when constructing your search patterns.

Cheers

John

 

http://ro.php.net/preg_match

check that out after you get the file contents...

you'll know what to do after that