JavaScript (HTML DOM) on Extern sites.

Gushe

Hello all.

I was just wondering; is there a way to for example Return href from an extern website using JavaScript (if you know the ID of course) with:

alalex

Well Javascript can for sure get XML from other sites, that would just be normal AJAX stuff, but select stuff from an external site with the getElementByID() call I'm not sure, although my first guess is that it is not possible...
Try this link:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread96626.html

And then browse this results in google...

Gushe

Well.. I found a way to do it in JavaScript:

Making an Invisible Iframe that loads the Page and than Acces the Iframe; since that should be possible. Smile

Now the problem is; Using JavaScript; probably everybody will know which 'n00bie-looking' way I'm using to retrieve info from certain websites.
So would there be a way doing this in PHP? Or letting the JavaScript run from an external file (Like PHP files; you don't really see the files)?

PHP would be prefered as I could make one big script for everything I need to do with the retrieved info. Smile

Thanx in Advance;
~ GuShe.

alalex

Of course it is much better to use php, since JavaScript might be disabled by some users.

With php I recommend you use cURL, you can search for tutorials on google. There is also fgets and other functions for this, but curl is just easier I guess