Question about HTML/PHP/MySQL.

[boxerorange]

Alright, so I want to copy information from one website onto mine.
I don't know how to do this, but I think the easiest way to do this would be to copy the data into a MySQL database, but how to do this I am unsure of.

So if anybody knows of a different/better way to do this, please post it. Or if you know how to do what I'm asking, post that as well.

Thanks!

[Your Eliteness]

Is this other website controlled by you? Do you have access to its database? I'll assume not.

You can use file_get_contents() to get their HTML source, then use preg_match_all() to filter the data you need. If their page needs something a bit more advanced such as a cookie or POST data then you'll probably need to use the curl functions to request it instead of file_get_contents().

http://php.net/file_get_contents
http://php.net/preg_match_all
http://php.net/curl

[boxerorange]

Wow. That's exactly what I'm looking for, but getting it to work how I want will probably be harder. I'm just glad it's not a page that has cookies or anything.

I'm looking at doing something similar to http://www.250films.net, so my problem now would be getting the information to update...UNLESS, I can put a this script on a page and then just run that (by visiting the page) whenever I feel like it.