Re: getting data back from another website

Remote queries and page scraping are both common practices. You can find a lot of information on both techniques by searching Google Groups. Just make sure you have permission from the website before hand. You want to make sure you're not infringing on their terms of service. - Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Danaher" <hdanaher@earthlink.net> To: "Nigel Hagger-Vaughan" <nigelhv@bigfoot.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] getting data back from another website > Nigel, > if you have a list of the domain names then you should be able to do > something like: > > $domain_name="wilden.worcs.sch.uk"; // this is the domain name from your > list > $file_to_open="x6�b49 > n��z�~�http://cgi.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=".$domain_name; > $fp=fopen($file_to_open,"r"); > while(!feof($fp)) > { > $line=fgets($fp,100); // reads a line of text or 100 characters which ever > comes first > if (preg_match("/Name servers listed in order:/",$line) > { > while (!preg_match("/WHOIS/",$line)) > { > $line.=fgets($fp,100); > } > } > } > echo $line; > fclose($fp); > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nigel Hagger-Vaughan" <nigelhv@bigfoot.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 12:32 PM > Subject: [PHP] getting data back from another website > > > > I'm sure there's a simple solution to this. In my site, I want to be able > > to send a query to another website, get some information from it and store > > it on my own, and I don't have a clue how to go about it. So that you > know > > what I'm talking about, I'll tell you - my site supports about 300 schools > > in the UK. For each of the schools, I want to be able to get information > > from the Nominet website (www.nominet.net) to find out the ISP tag that is > > associated with their domain name. The URL will to pull up the > appropriate > > page will look something like this: > > > > > > http://cgi.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=wilden.worcs.sch.uk > > > > for a school with a domain name wilden.worcs.sch.uk. I've got a database > of > > domain names, so I want to be able to create the URL, send it off > (somehow) > > and (somehow) process the result, which is (in this case) BTNAMES, as you > > will see from the Nominet site. Can anyone point me in the general > > direction of how to do this? > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >