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Feb 16.2006

Hello Community,

I would like to see the Euro British Pound exchange rate when I visit my web site. The only approach I know is to use iframes, however this has the disadvantage of loading the whole foreign page. Morover, if the foreign page has no anchor, then I have to scroll to find the piece of information I require.

As an example, lets imagine you want to see the echange rate GBP/EUR from Bloomberg, can someone suggest an improvement on:

You will see what I mean when you try the code, maybe there is a more sophisticated method for acheiving the same result.
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Alberto

[CODE]<html>
<head>
<title>Test Grab FX rate</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Test page to embed the currency exchange for 1 GBP into Euros.</p>

<iframe src=”http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies/fxc.html”
border=”0″
name=”myiframe”
id=”myiframe”
height=”450″
width=”450″></iframe>
</body>
</html>[/CODE]

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@aafragaauthorFeb 17.2006 — Hello Ray,

I ended up doing this using Php. Many thanks anyway.

The problem with iframes is that they dont allow you to zoom or focus onto the partcular region of the external page if there are no named anchors.

[CODE]<html>
<body>
<table><tr>
<?php
$url = 'http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GBPEUR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv';
$fp = fopen($url, 'r');
$data = fgetcsv($fp, 1000);
foreach ($data as $value){
print "<td>$value</td>";
}
?>
</tr></table>
</body>
</html>[/CODE]
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@ray326Feb 17.2006 — Cool. Server side is the better way to do it anyway.
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