Importing HTML and manipulating data?

[Tim356]

I want to import data from a table on this page:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN65066.shtml

It's updated every 10 minutes and contains temperatures and wind speeds of areas in Australia. The page is never renamed, always is the same link. I want to create a really simple page on one of my sites that will only show specific details for one location.

So I want to be able to somehow import the data from that table, then pull out something that would end up looking like this:

Badgerys Creek
Current wind speed: 6 knots (SW)
Current temperature: 10.0

That's all I want to display. The page will be really only for my own purposes - I want to be able to check this info from my mobile phone without having to scroll through all the other crap in that table (I kitesurf).

Can anyone help me? Will HTML Tidy do it? If so, how?

[Rob]

you got PHP, or ASP?

[Tim356]

PHP. You have a solution Rob?

[Tim356]

Solved. Rob, you should probably move this to the PHP forum now as it doesn't have much to do with html anymore.

PHP: Select all

<?php

$url = "http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN65066.shtml";



$page = implode('',file($url));



$start = strpos ($page, 'Tuggeranong,');

$end = strpos ($page, '-->', $start);

//$text = substr ($page, 0, $start) . substr ($page, $end+3);

$text = substr ($page, $start+12, $end-($start+12));

?>

[Rob]

yup... that easy