Placing DIV content from site A into site B

[Chappo]

Hello,

Have been searching for the solution for quite some time now and have not yet found anything that matches what i want to do.

Basically i have 2 sites, for example: www.google.com en www.yahoo.com
On the Google.com site i have a div with content.

Now i want to have that exact div with the content, to be placed in the yahoo.com site.

I have looked at using iFrame before, but i do not want to have the entire google.com site to be displayed, only 1 specific DIV

Is this even possible?

Big thank you in advance

[simplistik]

It's possible, there's an old script called htmlsql that you can target specific elements within a website and extract them as needed. http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/htmlsql.htm like i said it's old and it's discontinued but it does do a pretty good job. I don't really know an other good method personally.

[symmet]

I would try using jQuery with its load method. You should be able to load in any page you want and then extract the contents of a div, as long as you can target that div by class or ID.

http://api.jquery.com/load/

[NeoDreamer]

Here is a PHP solution. I am going to reverse your example - placing Yahoo into Google, instead of Google into Yahoo because Google uses JS to load its page and PHP can't run JS.



$entirePage = file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com');
preg_match('#<h2 class="y-txt-modhdr">(.*?)<#', $entirePage, $matches);
echo 'this is my google site <br />';
echo 'now here is a div from yahoo: ' . $matches[1] . '<br />';
echo 'now we are back on my google site';


The output:



this is my google site
now here is a div from yahoo: MY FAVORITES
now we are back on my google site

[psych0mantis00]

I agree with symmet, jQuery is the simplest you can just pop the div id in the load function and your done

[Chappo]

AWESOME!
I did not know about the Jquery function but will definitely look into it now

Great job guys - thank you so so much! :rich: