Getting Info off an HTML page into Flash

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This is similar to the weather feed question that is floating about… but it should be pretty simple for one of you PHP boffins.

I am trying to get some news off an HTML page and I want to display the headlines in Flash (the headlines are displayed on the HTML page).

How do I use PHP or another method to get what is written on this HTML to be displayed in my Flash document?

PS. Please bare in mind I have no skills whatsoever in PHP :frowning:

Thanks!

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Obviously, there are quite a few ways to do this… an easy way…

  1. Grab a content retrieval script off of Resource Index or [url=http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Web_Fetching/]hotscripts.
  2. Have the php script format the output into a name/value pair string or into an xml format
  3. Call loadVariables to load the data into flash

Please let me know if you need more help.

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Hi, thanks a lot for your response. There are some pretty cool scripts and they are certainly a BIG push in the right direction.

All of what you say there, even for me, is pretty straight forward apart from the PHP (the hardest bit :slight_smile: ) - obviously as I have hardly ever used it.

The program that I think is most suitable in my situation is Snoopy 0.94 as it allows u to get specific information. Right now I am trying to get the weather - weatherport does it all for you but allows you to type in a zip code, I ONLY want to display the weather for Oxford, Uk - and only for today !

On Yahoo the following link : http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX0106_f.html

shows the weather forecast today for oxford:

Today: Partly cloudy. High 51F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph.

basically all I want from that is the ***“partly cloudy. High 51F” *** Part.

Reading the README file with Snoopy it seems that the command I need to use is fetchtext($URI)

described as This behaves exactly like fetch() except that it only returns the text from the page, stripping out html tags and other irrelevant data.

The problem I have now is writing the PHP script to get this info, and only the info I want which I said above.

I have no idea how to even go about that, can anybody help me with that?

Thanks for all the help already and anymore that follows.

PS. Weather.com also shows weather for Oxford Uk and has some scripts developed for it specially, so if anybody has used one of those scripts previously and knows how I can get it working obviously I don’t mind using that instead!

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Here is the snoopy 0.94 file if anybody wants to have a look at it.