Retrieving Information from a Website using PHP

[hmaster10]

Is it possible to make a PHP script that enables the user to acquire information from a given website, like values inside a table and save it in a text file?

[WBHoenig]

I can think of a possibility, but the problem is that HTML has gotten so varied that getting data out of HTML would take a lot of time and effort.

[hmaster10]

Is it possible if you can point me to some tutorials or information that I can read on about this?

[WBHoenig]

I don't know of any tutorials; I was just brainstorming a bit and kinda-sorta thought of a possibility. I haven't tried it, though, and haven't come up with any real code to back it.

[Nad]

You could use fwrite - http://uk2.php.net/fwrite

It basically takes values (usually from a form) and saves them to a text file. Just remember to chmodd the file to 777!

[dAbReAkA]

just like WBHoenig said, it's possible..

u can get the content of the site with

<? $f=file('http://google.com/'); for ($i=0; $i<count($f); $i++) $content.=$f[$i]; ?>

then u just need some regular expressions and stuff like that to get the info from the tables.. i've done a similar thing for a torrent tracker system which gets each torrent's hash, uploader, size, name, category by having access to the html code only.. it's not impossible..

Edited January 5, 2007 by dAbReAkA