extracting data from website

[rjseals]

Im not sure whether I can do this in php or not. I know it can be done in Perl but don't know it very well and know php a little better so I wanted to see if it could be done that way.

I want to get some stats from espn.com. I will put the team ID's that I want the stats of into an array. The part I am wondering is if I can basically connect to a webpage and extract information.

Should I stick to learning perl or can this be done with php.

Thanks.

 

[lgarner]

Use curl to have the PHP script access an external web site.

 

[ggggus]

You can also use fopen() to grab a page and then use string functions (str_replace, preg_replace, ereg_replace, substr, etc.) to cut down the returned page to what you want.

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