[Help][PHP] Take info from one site and show in another.

[VaRz]

I want help in taking information from one website (Eg. Twitter) and show in my own site.

Something like: Last 10 Tweets.

how do i go about making the code?

 

[Checksum]

If you are specific about twitter, they have ready made widgets - Twitter

 

[VaRz]

I am not specific about twitter, it was just an example...

I wanna know how to leech info(specific info.) from a webpage...

 

[Checksum]

You can use jQuery's Load function to get a remote page/part of page and display it in the current page - Ajax/load - jQuery JavaScript Library

Or you can use PHP CURL library to get the page, manipulate it as needed before displaying.

 

[6pack]

or you could take that sites RSS feed and parse it using php. while parsing it you can take only the parts that matter to you and leave the rest out.

 

[VaRz]

getting it is easy...manupilating is what i need help with

 

[Checksum]

Well if you do tell us what you need with an example, we can try to help.

 

[VaRz]

Example: Go to Engadget.com and rip off the latest post...

 

[6pack]

^ it can be done using rss easily.

Tutorial:

Reading RSS with PHP | Blog | Custom-Built Professional Web Development and Design | Ennui

Free rss parser:

Examples | Last RSS

 

[VaRz]

alright, cool

almost done!

Thanks for your help!!!

 

[dpacmittal]

Hah.. I've made a script to post Engadget news on my forum which is on my sig. Works great. Only the CGI script which converts HTML to BBC doesn't work well sometimes which breaks the post.

PS: I haven't stripped any links to Engadget.

If anyone wants help with parsing RSS in PHP, you can ask me.