Reference external page

[Zath]

Hi.
Is it possible with javascript or DOM etc. to reference an external page ?
We have some great codes here but they are always looking at their own local page, finding elements and then performing an action.

I'm looking to read a single item on a page and replicate it on another.
A game I play has a server status image that has three states. I would like to read the image name (ie. online.png, offline.png, maintenance.png) then apply my own image on my own fansite.
It it sits in a named div.
I have permission to use the info.

Can anyone guide me ?

Cheers.

[proseth]

You would use PHP to do something like this (there are other options, but PHP is the simplest). You basically want to load a PHP JavaScript file and make use of PHP's file_get_contents() function to do this.

So on your Header/Footer you would have:

<script src="http://website.com/script.php" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then in the external file you would use PHP's file_get_contents() function to search for the image and you'd echo it into JavaScript code.

I could possibly do this for you if you want, just drop me a PM. I'm not too active on ProBoards anymore but this is pretty simple to do.

[xcessive]

Yes, use Javascript to communicate with a server that is hosting a php script that gets, then returns the data on the other page.

[Charles Stover]

You _could_ use PHP, but it would take up a lot of server resources to download that page every time the PHP file is accessed. You'd be better off working with the server admin to have them set up a custom JavaScript file, e.g.
<script src="http://www.their-website.com/server-status.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which would simply contain:
var status = "online"; // or offline, etc.

[Zath]

Nov 8, 2010 5:13:56 GMT -8 Charles Stover said:

You _could_ use PHP, but it would take up a lot of server resources to download that page every time the PHP file is accessed. You'd be better off working with the server admin to have them set up a custom JavaScript file, e.g.
<script src="www.their-website.com/server-status.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which would simply contain:
var status = "online"; // or offline, etc.

That would be the ideal situation and the same as NCSoft have for their games. Not sure if the people that operate this game would go that far. Still, its worth asking the question.

[proseth]

Nov 8, 2010 5:13:56 GMT -8 Charles Stover said:

You _could_ use PHP, but it would take up a lot of server resources to download that page every time the PHP file is accessed. You'd be better off working with the server admin to have them set up a custom JavaScript file, e.g.
<script src="www.their-website.com/server-status.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which would simply contain:
var status = "online"; // or offline, etc.

Of course this is the best option but it might be difficult to get a large company to take time to do this for him. It's worth a try, I suppose.

[Zath]

Nov 8, 2010 17:42:12 GMT -8 @proseth said:

Nov 8, 2010 5:13:56 GMT -8 Charles Stover said:

You _could_ use PHP, but it would take up a lot of server resources to download that page every time the PHP file is accessed. You'd be better off working with the server admin to have them set up a custom JavaScript file, e.g.
<script src="www.their-website.com/server-status.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which would simply contain:
var status = "online"; // or offline, etc.

Of course this is the best option but it might be difficult to get a large company to take time to do this for him. It's worth a try, I suppose.

You're probably right there !

[Charles Stover]

Nov 8, 2010 17:42:12 GMT -8 @proseth said:

Nov 8, 2010 5:13:56 GMT -8 Charles Stover said:

You _could_ use PHP, but it would take up a lot of server resources to download that page every time the PHP file is accessed. You'd be better off working with the server admin to have them set up a custom JavaScript file, e.g.
<script src="www.their-website.com/server-status.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which would simply contain:
var status = "online"; // or offline, etc.

Of course this is the best option but it might be difficult to get a large company to take time to do this for him. It's worth a try, I suppose.

Indeed. But if you told them that you'd whore their bandwidth to leech it offer their HTML pages, they might reconsider.