Stock ticker lookup
OK you have used the quote scripts on this site and they work well but they have one problem , you must know the ticker symbol in advance . We solve this problem with the following script which uses another of yahoo's useful services . In this example we enter a company name (this could come from a form with a bit of modification) and then we display the results on the page .
Here is the script
<?php
//this is the company you wish to lookup
$company = "ntl";
//this is the url from yahoo + the company
$url = "http://quote.yahoo.com/l?m=&s=" . $company . "&t=";
//open the url and store in $fp
$fp = fopen($url , "r");
//read 20000 bytes of the file
$readfile = fread($fp , 20000);
//search for the HTML below and store everything in between in $content
$readfile = ereg("<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=2 cellSpacing=0 width=100%>(.*)<small>Add</small>" , $readfile, $content);
//display the results in a table
echo "<table width = '100%'>";
echo "$content[1]";
echo "</table>";
//close the file handle
fclose($fp);
?>
And here is the output
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