Retrieving data from a URL in PHP
| From: | Anthony Ritter | Date: | Wed, 05 Jun 2002 20:53:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Retrieving data from a URL in PHP | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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The code that follows is from Welling and Thomson's book on PHP and mysql
(page 372)
I've tried it on Apache/ MS Windows 98 / PHP and I get the following line:
"No quote available."
My questions...
1. Why can't I retrieve the present stock quote?
and
2. What does the variable
$quote
represent in the script?
I cannot find what the variable -or array - $quote has been assigned to.
Please see:
echo $quote[1];
below
Thanking all in advance.
Tony Ritter
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<html>
<head>
<title>Stock Quote from NYSE</title>
</head>
<body>
<?
$symbol="IBM";
echo "<h1>Stock Quote for $symbol</h1>";
$theurl="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ibm&d=v1";
if (!($fp=fopen($theurl, "r")))
{
echo "Could not open the URL";
exit;
}
$contents= fread($fp, 1000000);
fclose($fp);
$pattern="(\\\$[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)";
if (eregi($pattern,$contents,$quote))
{
echo "$symbol was sold at: ";
echo $quote[1];
}
else
{
echo "No quote available.";
}
echo "<br>"."This information retrieved from<br>"."<a
href=\"$theurl\">$theurl</a><br>"."on ".(date("l jS F Y
g:i a T"));
?>
</body>
</html>