To illustrate what's wrong with the code from the book,
the following code works... notice what's different.
But really, you should've just loaded the URL and noticed
there's no "$[0-9].[0-9]" and instead it was bold.
problem solved.
$symbol="ibm";
echo "Stock Quote for $symbol\n";
$theurl="htt
You may need a user:pass appended to the URI.
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 15:11, Anthony Ritter wrote:
> The code that follows is from Welling and Thomson's book on PHP and
> mysql
> (page 372)
>
> I've tried it on Apache/ MS Windows 98 / PHP and I get the following
> line:
>
> "No quote ava
Try
$content = implode('', file("URL...") );
rather than the fopen(), file pointer route.
--Dan
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Yahoo keeps moving things around. I had the same result with a news feed.
If you research the page at
http://finance.yahoo.com/?u
you should be able to figure out how they get quotes.
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