Accessing a URL
am 01.02.2008 10:08:44 von SirFlibble
Hi All,
I'm not a programmer these days (been years since I have and since
become a lawyer... don't hate me) but a friend asked for a favour and
it's been a while since I cracked out even a basic piece of code so I
said ok.
Anyhow, this script needs to read an RSS feed at the following extremely
long and annoying URL. From what I can work out )my friend didn't know
either) it's a PHP script that publishes the data as an RSS feed. The
URL is as follows.
http://www.mylegalcareer.com.au/content.php/jobresults.html? form_search_e
mployerid=&form_search_employer_label=&form_search_locality= &form_search_
state=&form_search_employertype%5B%5D=&form_search_jobtype%5 B%5D=&form_se
arch_practice%5B%5D=&form_search_jobcategory%5B%5D=&form_sub mit_x=24&form
_submit_y=11&form_submit=Submit&rss=1
Now I've written a small script which essentially reads the output from
that script (which I saved into a file for testing) and prints out the
and <link> elements as a new webpage. The ultimate goal is the <br />
actively feed off the RSS feed and present it in a nice HTML form in an <br />
iframe (which will be used on several websites). <br />
<br />
So my question (after my long winded explanation) is how do I access <br />
this data via it's URL? I can't seem to work it out. <br />
<br />
The code is as follows. <br />
<br />
<?php <br />
if(!$xml=simplexml_load_file('test.xml')){<br />
trigger_error('Error reading XML file',E_USER_ERROR);<br />
}<br />
for ($x = 0; $x<9; $x++) {<br />
echo '<a href=' . $xml->channel[0]->item[$x]->link . '>'. <br />
$xml->channel[0]->item[$x]->title . '</a><br>';<br />
}<br />
?><br />
<br />
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me... it's been a fun <br />
challenge to even get to this point.</p>
</article>
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<h2>Re: Accessing a URL</h2><span>am 01.02.2008 13:25:26 von colin.mckinnon</span>
<p>On 1 Feb, 09:08, SirFlibble <nospample...@garbagetodel.flibbled.com><br />
wrote:<br />
> Hi All,<br />
><br />
> I'm not a programmer these days (been years since I have and since<br />
> become a lawyer... don't hate me) but a friend asked for a favour and<br />
> it's been a while since I cracked out even a basic piece of code so I<br />
> said ok.<br />
><br />
> Anyhow, this script needs to read an RSS feed at the following extremely<br />
> long and annoying URL. From what I can work out )my friend didn't know<br />
> either) it's a PHP script that publishes the data as an RSS feed. The<br />
> URL is as follows.<br />
><br />
> http://www.mylegalcareer.com.au/content.php/jobresults.html? form_sear...<br />
> mployerid=&form_search_employer_label=&form_search_locality= &form_search_<br />
> state=&form_search_employertype%5B%5D=&form_search_jobtype%5 B%5D=&form_se<br />
> arch_practice%5B%5D=&form_search_jobcategory%5B%5D=&form_sub mit_x=24&form<br />
> _submit_y=11&form_submit=Submit&rss=1<br />
<snip><br />
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me... it's been a fun<br />
> challenge to even get to this point.<br />
<br />
IANAL...<br />
<br />
You don't say what's not working.<br />
<br />
Depending on the config of your PHP install, your code might niot be<br />
able to read directly from a web page. You can test this with:<br />
<br />
<?php<br />
<br />
print file('http://.....');<br />
<br />
?><br />
<br />
If its a problem parsing the XML - there's a lot of code available off<br />
the shelf for handling RSS - I've used Magpie RSS and found it easy.<br />
<br />
C.</p>
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<h2>Re: Accessing a URL</h2><span>am 01.02.2008 13:35:21 von Captain Paralytic</span>
<p>On 1 Feb, 09:08, SirFlibble <nospample...@garbagetodel.flibbled.com><br />
wrote:<br />
> Hi All,<br />
><br />
> I'm not a programmer these days (been years since I have and since<br />
> become a lawyer... don't hate me) but a friend asked for a favour and<br />
> it's been a while since I cracked out even a basic piece of code so I<br />
> said ok.<br />
><br />
> Anyhow, this script needs to read an RSS feed at the following extremely<br />
> long and annoying URL. From what I can work out )my friend didn't know<br />
> either) it's a PHP script that publishes the data as an RSS feed. The<br />
> URL is as follows.<br />
><br />
> http://www.mylegalcareer.com.au/content.php/jobresults.html? form_sear...<br />
> mployerid=&form_search_employer_label=&form_search_locality= &form_search_<br />
> state=&form_search_employertype%5B%5D=&form_search_jobtype%5 B%5D=&form_se<br />
> arch_practice%5B%5D=&form_search_jobcategory%5B%5D=&form_sub mit_x=24&form<br />
> _submit_y=11&form_submit=Submit&rss=1<br />
><br />
> Now I've written a small script which essentially reads the output from<br />
> that script (which I saved into a file for testing) and prints out the<br />
> <title> and <link> elements as a new webpage. The ultimate goal is the<br />
> actively feed off the RSS feed and present it in a nice HTML form in an<br />
> iframe (which will be used on several websites).<br />
><br />
> So my question (after my long winded explanation) is how do I access<br />
> this data via it's URL? I can't seem to work it out.<br />
><br />
> The code is as follows.<br />
><br />
> <?php<br />
> if(!$xml=simplexml_load_file('test.xml')){<br />
> trigger_error('Error reading XML file',E_USER_ERROR);<br />
> }<br />
> for ($x = 0; $x<9; $x++) {<br />
> echo '<a href=' . $xml->channel[0]->item[$x]->link . '>'.<br />
> $xml->channel[0]->item[$x]->title . '</a><br>';<br />
> }<br />
> ?><br />
><br />
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me... it's been a fun<br />
> challenge to even get to this point.<br />
<br />
I thought lawyers had to be very careful with their grammar when<br />
writing legal documents so that they should not be misinterpreted?<br />
("it's URL" should be "its URL")<br />
<br />
Anyway, you can use CURL or you may (as long as the server is<br />
configured to allow it - i.e. allow_url_fopen is enabled), be able to<br />
just put the URL into an fopen() call.</p>
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