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php_value allow_url_fopen on

stockChecker.php

<?php

/********************************************************************
*                                                                   *
* Function pulls stock information from the symex belgium website,  *
* which is where the Schneider Electric Website gets its data       *
*                                                                   *
* Added 2008-09-04 Joe Crawford                                     *
*                                                                   *
********************************************************************/
function stockTickerRevised()
{
	
	define(DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL,0);	

	$citation_url = "http://www.schneider-electric.com/sites/corporate/en/finance/general-informations/share-price/share-price.page";
	$url = "http://su.symexbelgium.com/new2/finance.html?Language=en";
	$schneider_price_page = "";
	$schneider_price_page = @file_get_contents($url);
	
	if(!$schneider_price_page){
		$outstring =<<<ERROR_STOCK
			<div id="stockquote" class="lcol_widget">
					<h3>SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC</h3>	
					<p>
						Error loading ticker information from 
						<a href="{$citation_url}">Schneider Electric</a>.
					</p>
			</div>
ERROR_STOCK;
	} else {

		$doc = new DOMDocument();
		@$doc->loadHTML($schneider_price_page);
	
		// key's in this array will be grabbed from the DOM of the html source
		$values = array(
			'close' => DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL,
			'var_veille' => DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL,
			'veille' => DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL,
			'high' => DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL,
			'low' => DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL,
			'close_cac' => ( DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL . ' Points')
			);
		foreach($values as $key => $value)
		{
			$values[$key] = trim($doc->getElementById($key)->nodeValue);
			//	$values[$key] = DEFAULT_STOCK_VAL;
		}
		
		$values['calculated_change'] = $values['close']-$values['veille'];
		$values['close_cac'] = number_format(str_replace(' ','',$values['close_cac']),2,'.',',') . ' Points';
	
		$currency_symbol = "&#8364;";
	
		
		if($values['veille'] > $values['close'])
		{
			//down	
			$arrow = "&#8595;"; //downarrow
			$color = "#cc0000";		
		} elseif ($values['veille'] == $values['close']) {
			// same
			$arrow = "&#8596;"; //leftrightarrow
			$color = "#000000";		
		} elseif($values['veille'] < $values['close']) {
			// up
			$arrow = "&#8593;"; //uparrow
			$color = "green";		
		} else {
			$arrow = "?";
			$color = "#cccccc";		
		}
		
	
		$outstring =<<<HERESTRING
		<div id="stockquote" class="lcol_widget">
			<h3>SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC</h3>
				<p>
				<b>{$currency_symbol}</b><big><b>{$values['close']}</b></big>
				<b style="color:{$color};">
					{$arrow} {$values['calculated_change']}
					({$values['var_veille']}%)
				</b><br />
					<b style="color:#666666">CAC 40 Index: {$values['close_cac']}</b><br />
				<small><a href="$citation_url" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none;">[source]</a></small></p>
		</div><!--stockquote ends-->
HERESTRING;

	}

	print $outstring;
} // end function stockTickerRevised


stockTickerRevised();

?>