trying to put an updated stock price on page - please help!
trying to put on a bank's web page, their stock ticker...and have it update it everyday... how do I that? thanks
trying to put on a bank's web page, their stock ticker...and have it update it everyday... how do I that? thanks
fairhousing posted this at 02:59 — 24th June 1999.
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Your question is unclear to me but I would guess either meta refresh or some type of cgi
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keithl posted this at 17:34 — 24th June 1999.
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where would I get the "updated txt file"?
thanks for the help guys!
JP Stones posted this at 21:49 — 24th June 1999.
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...assuming we are using a very basic system here you could put the text file anywhere on your site and just manually edit it everyday.
JP
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keithl posted this at 00:35 — 25th June 1999.
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my question (hopefully a little more clearer) is i have a banks web site...i want to somehow go get their ticker info (where?) and place it on the site. Then every day, the ticker would update.
elara posted this at 01:17 — 25th June 1999.
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keithl,
You can achive that using SSI in your html page which call a CGI program which pulls out a updated text file.
Hope this helps.
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keithl posted this at 04:59 — 25th June 1999.
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for example, take a look at commercebank.com...they have the same kind of idea..
keithl posted this at 00:03 — 26th June 1999.
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i was looking for a way to have it automatically update...kind of like if you were to put the symbol in for ex. yahoo....you would get the updated value...except it would be on the web page ...all the time...updated when it reloaded..
elara posted this at 22:56 — 26th June 1999.
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keithl,
In that case, you need to hire a Perl programmer to make use of the LWP module to update the stock prices everyday. And of course, you need something like cron to schedule the job.
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