How to get the GE price of an item using PHP?

[nightshade53]

Hey,

 

 

 

I'm designing a drop logger PHP page, and I wish for it to be able to retrieve the GE prices. Does anybody know how I can attempt this? :o

 

 

 

 

 

~Kray

[dsavi]

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is to cURL them and use simpleXML, but I seem to remember that the URLs change or something, making that difficult... Also there is no light version of the GE.

[MageUK]

It's fairly easy, you just need to know the ID of the item you want to grab...

 

 

 

      

	// Enter your item ID here.

	$itemid = 10392;



	$curl = curl_init();

	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://itemdb-rs.runescape.com/viewitem.ws?obj=".$itemid);

	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);

	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);

	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 6);

	$fullge =  curl_exec($curl);

	$curl_http = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

	curl_close($curl);



	if ($curl_http == "404") {



		// For some reason Jagex has deleted the GE :D

		// Do whatever you need to here.

	}



	if (strpos($fullge, "The item you were trying to view could not be found.") !== FALSE) {



		// The item doesn't exist.

		// Do whatever you need to here.

	}



	ereg('Minimum price: ([0-9\.km,]+)', $fullge, $regex['minprice']);

	ereg('Market price: ([0-9\.km,]+)', $fullge, $regex['markprice']);

	ereg('Maximum price: ([0-9\.km,]+)', $fullge, $regex['maxprice']);



	/*

	 * Element [1] of the $regex arrays now contains the prices from the GE.

	 * Running them through trim() first is a good idea just to be safe.

	 *

	 */



	 // Just to prove it works!

	 print_r($regex);

 

 

 

Obviously that can very easily be turned into a function to grab the data for a given item ID.

[nightshade53]

Perfect, thanks :)