Anyway to "pull-in" data from a website?

[...Adam]

I'm using php/mysql.

Is there anyway to have a page that will get the data from another webiste
page? For example, I want to have a page that will get the latest posts in
a Google Group?

Thanks.

[Joe Makowiec]

On Tue 10 May 2005 06:26:21p, ...Adam wrote in
macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev:

> I'm using php/mysql.
>
> Is there anyway to have a page that will get the data from another
> webiste page? For example, I want to have a page that will get the
> latest posts in a Google Group?

What you want to do is called 'page scraping'. The theory is fairly
simple: open the page using PHP; search the page for what you want; output
that into your page. For example:

<?php
// Scrape example.com page for my information
$i=0;
$url = "http://example.com/index.php";
$filepointer = fopen($url,"r");
if($filepointer){
while(!feof($filepointer) {
$buffer = fgets($filepointer, 4096);
if (preg_match("myregex",$buffer,$matchLink)) {
$myline[$i++] = $matchLink;
} // End If
} // End While
fclose($filepointer);
} else {
echo("Could not create a connection to example.com");
}
// $myline now contains what I was looking for
?>

See [url]http://www.php.net/[/url] for information on the relevant functions. Where
this gets tricky is in:
a) figuring out a pattern to grab what you want
b) creating a regex to look for that pattern

It might be simpler, if the site has an RSS feed, to use that.