web design

[Mr anderson]

hi peeps, i need some help, i have just bulit a web site its up and running. But the problem i got now is, i need to take live information from one site and put it on to mine ( by live i mean it alters everyday like the stock markets?). Any ideas on how to do this

[mats.hogberg]

If the other site isn't protected agains such actions, you could place an iFrame on your page, and have it display the page from the other site.
Else, you have to schedule (or run on demand) some app on your server that fetches the page from the other site and saves it on your.
Is your site ASP or ASPX or PHP or Perl or what?

/Mats

[Mr anderson]

at the moment its html but is it better that i use asp?

[mats.hogberg]

The IFRAME (or regular frame) way would work with pure HTML, but other methods require some kind of active server components/scripting. If you're on a Windows/IIS server, it's usually aspx/asp, if on Linux/Apache, PHP or PERL

/Mats

[Sabro]

Why not use a simple RSS feed?

Find a RSS feed you'd like to display on your site and use this site http://www.thumpertalk.com/rssfeed/build.php to build the code
you'll need to add to your webpage(s).

As soon as the feed(s) are updated they will be reflected on your
site as when someone views your page.

This is just one of the many feeds out there you can use to get
an idea -> http://www.marketwatch.com/rss/marketpulse.

Thus using thumpertalk.com's app produces (working but just an
example) javascript you'd paste in to your web page -

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.thumpertalk.com/rssfeed/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2 Frss%2Fmarketpulse&num=2&desc=1&date=y" type="text/javascript"></script>

<noscript>
View RSS feed
</noscript>

Poof - instant automatic updating page when they update their feed.


Sabro