Take information from other page and move it to your page

How would I take information let's say number of threads on digitalpoint and show it on my website.
Information must be updated. Numbers must alway be the same.

Is it possible to do this?

 

Possible, yes. Allowed, no.

RSS would be easiest, otherwise try PHP's file_get_contents() or curl.

 

Why not allowed?
In thing I'm thinking about I would also bring visitors to DP (acctualy not DP, but let's say it is DP)

 

Because you're not allowed to steal content.

Exceptions are if they allow it in their Terms & Conditions or you get written permission.

 

Ok, I think they would allow this.

So how exacly i get this information into my website. I'm not good with php.
It would be good enough if it would update every 10minutes, but faster is better.

Thanks!

 

Here an example for your first question.

<?php

$data = file_get_contents('http://forums.digitalpoint.com');

preg_match('/Threads: ([0-9,]{6,8})\,/', $data, $matches);

echo 'There are currently '. $matches[1] .' threads on digitalpoint.';

?>

Code (markup):

The better you are with regular expressions, the easier it will be to fetch the content you want.

 

You need to search for a script to parse RSS feeds.

 

it's working, thanks

 

Nice Script, if it's working. I have saved it in my notepad for future use.