Re: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

[Matt Allen <Matt@nospam.LinuxWorx.com.au>]

Hi,

Right, the way i "borrow" the weather from www.bom.gov.au is this:

1. in PHP ise the fopen function to read the entire page(source) into an
array.
2. run though the array and check each line for the occurance of some
certain text like: "Sydney           ".
3. strip off the other guff.
4. Stick the data you need in a DB, or on the file system.
5. Record the time you last got the data so you dont have to do it every
time someone views your page. Mine expires hourly.

Matta


"Grahame M. Kelly" wrote:
> 
> Yes, I'll admit to being a html/web newbie.
> 
> So, for a thick head on this side of the email, how does one extrace the
> temperature, due point, humidity textural information etc. from a page like
> 
> http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/as__sydney.html
> 
> Does anyone have a simpler more elegant solution ?
> 
> Thanks, Grahame
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