Reading db fetched values from files.

awright, basically what i want is to write a script that can open a file and read some values that i want, for eg:- yahoo mail. if i have an account and i can make a page that logs on to my yahoo mail using my account, i want to display the number of unread messages ( & perhaps read messages ) on my page using my script. i'm not really opening the yahoo mail page. i'm just needing to read the no. of read messages once i've logged on using my script & my a/c info and print it out on my page..... how's this possible. making a logon page in which i feed in my user/pass for yahoo mail is easy - and then actually logging on to my yahoo mial is also easy - but i don't wanna open my yahoo inbox - i just wanna read the values of read & unread messages and print it out on my page which opens next. can this be done? i figure we use the filesystem functions - but considering yahoo uses his own cgi-perl with his own db, how can my PHP code read those scripts and give the output? cheers, T. Edison jr. ===== Rahul S. Johari (Director) ****************************************** Abraxas Technologies Inc. Homepage : http://www.abraxastech.com Email : abraxastech@yahoo.com Tel : 91-4546512/4522124 ******************************************* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text