Ok here is what im trying to do. i know its not a big deal but im not so much into these stuff. there are some values in a webpage that are constantly changing (ie: \feed.asp). What i want is to make an exact copy of this page and change only some stuff that dont change along with the values i want to watch. So, in some way i want to add a script that will refresh the values on my page by downloading the feed.asp file from the site and copy the lines of the code that i want and replace those of my page.
I know what im asking is pretty simple, but since i dont have much experience with scripts id like to hear ur opinion.
First of all does it have to be a server-side script or can i just make a page that would run from my hdd with some other way. In the first case i could stick to php since im more familiar with it.
Any help is much appreciated

Originally Posted by ARaG0rN

Ok here is what im trying to do. i know its not a big deal but im not so much into these stuff. there are some values in a webpage that are constantly changing (ie: \feed.asp). What i want is to make an exact copy of this page and change only some stuff that dont change along with the values i want to watch. So, in some way i want to add a script that will refresh the values on my page by downloading the feed.asp file from the site and copy the lines of the code that i want and replace those of my page.
I know what im asking is pretty simple, but since i dont have much experience with scripts id like to hear ur opinion.
First of all does it have to be a server-side script or can i just make a page that would run from my hdd with some other way. In the first case i could stick to php since im more familiar with it.
Any help is much appreciated

You need to use some server side language, due to browser secuirty blocking you from accessing other sites outside of your domain name via JavaScript.

So you can either have a PHP script that would download that page, parse it, and then print the processed html page to you. Or use a HTML page with JavaScript (AJAX style) and a PHP script serverside. Which would mean you could use real time updates etc.

thx for the advice. i managed to make the php script. i need to add the javascript code now. i dont want it to reload the whole page though cause it might interrupt if im scrolling the page for example. any ideas?

Originally Posted by ARaG0rN

thx for the advice. i managed to make the php script. i need to add the javascript code now. i dont want it to reload the whole page though cause it might interrupt if im scrolling the page for example. any ideas?

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Should get you started with using JavaScript to query the PHP script for new content.

it seems the javascript part is the most difficult although i thought i would get stacked with php. I'll get it to work eventually