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I wanted to access the ISBN database, and was previously parsing the HTML string generated from their main page, that is until I discovered they have an API that returns XML. So, if anyone wants to get some information from the ISBN database, all you need to do is the following. <?php //Search the ISBN database for the book. $url = "http://www.isbndb.com/api/books.xml? access_key=KEY&index1=isbn&value1=$_GET[ISBN]"; $p = xml_parser_create(); xml_parse_into_struct($p,file_get_contents($url),$results,$index); xml_parser_free($p); $title = $results[$index[TITLELONG][0]][value]; $author = $results[$index[AUTHORSTEXT][0]][value]; $publisher = $results[$index[PUBLISHERTEXT][0]][value]; ?> You will need to get an access key from isbndb.com, but it takes two seconds and is free. When you get it, replace KEY in the URL with your own key. Also, my code above will search for the book that fits the ISBN number stored in the GET variable ISBN - you can search by other parameters and return more than one result, but my example is for a simple ISBN search. ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 206.208.133.75 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78678 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78678 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78678 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php