Callin php parsing gurus

New Member Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 7

HELP !!

i want to parse a league table for my rugby club into a block from
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is this
a. possible ?
b. go on gimme a hint how , ya know you want to Smile

thx in advance

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Parse a table? Normally you don't parse a table because the columns already have what you need. Please explain.

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:35 pm

ok sorry for being vague

basically i want to build a block that contains the league table from that site on my site

i dont want to link to it

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:48 pm

It is possible. You should just ask the webmaster to send you a feed, probably just make an xml feed available. That would be the easiest way. But, otherwise, you will first want to use file_get_contents() to read the web page into a variable, like

$content=file_get_contents('http://www.rfu.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/res.LeagueTable/PoolID/101/Season/2004');

Then you will have to parse $content to extract the pieces you want. Finally, place them all into $content so the block will automatically display them.

You can find an example of this in my KISSQ (Stock Quotes). Download it and review the code.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:38 am

sweet thx for the pointers