I am trying to add something to my site www.umichclubsoccer.com that would automatically check the league standing for our team which are in an embarassing geocities website and download the text and display it nicely on my website...
the pages it needs to get are
http://www.geocities.com/mwalliance/...rtherndivision
and
http://www.geocities.com/mwalliance/2005standings
and
http://www.mwalliance.com/PR-web-10-3-06.htm
Any ideas on how I could do this???
or where I could get some code to... I have very little php background (virtually none)
2006-10-12 20:43:54 · 4 answers · asked by topgun553 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
a note on your response: my website is
www.umichclubsoccer.com
not the geocities website... and I am building it
Also on your question about mac on a PC... It is possible just not legally
2006-10-12 20:51:38 · update #1
What you need is a web scraper and some processing. Wget and WWW::Mechanize are two ways of web-scraping. Wget is a utility that runs on your web server; you'll have to create a script to call it and parse the information. WWW::Mechanize is a Perl module that will let you extract information from remote web sites. In any case, you will need to develop a background in php, Perl, or other scripting language.
An alternative is to get the person who posts the results to make it available as an RSS feed, but then you'll need to learn some XML.
2006-10-12 22:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well since the text present in the geocities website is not available as a RSS feed. You can try making the page appear in an IFRAME on your website. It will not look neat, but I don't think there is another way..
To find IFRAME scripts, visit
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/
2006-10-13 04:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by Janice 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
rss, you need to get a nice web site cuz i went to yours and its really plain.
2006-10-13 03:46:46 · answer #3 · answered by Oscar 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
use a database man
2006-10-13 04:21:34 · answer #4 · answered by S K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋