fgetcsv not working for yahoo stock csv? [closed] - php

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i wanted to read the csv file i load from yahoo that includes some stock data. 2 days before i used this code:
$ticker_url="";
for($i=0;$i<200;$i++){
if($i==199){
// $ticker=array with all 200 stock ticker....
$ticker_url=$ticker_url.$ticker[$i];
}else{
$ticker_url=$ticker_url.$ticker[$i]."+";
}
}
$url="http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s='$ticker_url'&f=snxab2l1va2p2opm3m4ghd1t1=.csv";
$filehandle=fopen($url,"r");
while(!feof($filehandle)){
$line=fgetcsv($filehandle,1024);
echo $line[0]."<br/>";
}
fclose($filehandle);
But now it doesn't work anymore. There is no problem with $url works fine. but reading the lines with fgetcsv hust loops 6 times and got no elemnts in it...
pls help.

Answer 1

$ticker = array('GOOG', 'ACE', 'FDX'); // test tickers
$ticker_url = '';
$count = count($ticker);
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++)
{
$ticker_url .= (0 === $i)
? $ticker[$i]
: '+' . $ticker[$i];
}
$url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=' . $ticker_url . '&f=snxab2l1va2p2opm3m4ghd1t1=.csv';
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', TRUE);
if (($handle = fopen($url, 'r')) !== FALSE)
{
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1024, ',', '"')) !== FALSE)
{
print_r($data);
}
fclose($handle);
}
Outputs:
Array
(
[0] => GOOG
[1] => Google Inc.
[2] => NasdaqNM
[3] => 719.55
[4] => 719.55
[5] => 719.49
[6] => 912426
[7] => 2583440
[8] => +1.71%
[9] => 720.03
[10] => 707.38
[11] => 688.697
[12] => 669.546
[13] => 718.00
[14] => 727.00
[15] => 1/2/2013
[16] => 10:27am
[17] => GOOG
[18] => GOOG
[19] => +12.11 - +1.71%
[20] => GOOG
[21] => 912426
)
Array
(
[0] => ACE
[1] => Ace Limited Commo
[2] => NYSE
[3] => N/A
[4] => 80.91
[5] => 80.91
[6] => 279438
[7] => 1476060
[8] => +1.39%
[9] => 81.20
[10] => 79.80
[11] => 79.4015
[12] => 76.014
[13] => 80.56
[14] => 81.58
[15] => 1/2/2013
[16] => 10:28am
[17] => ACE
[18] => ACE
[19] => +1.11 - +1.39%
[20] => ACE
[21] => 279438
)
Array
(
[0] => FDX
[1] => FedEx Corporation
[2] => NYSE
[3] => N/A
[4] => 94.59
[5] => 94.59
[6] => 594530
[7] => 2092040
[8] => +3.13%
[9] => 93.46
[10] => 91.72
[11] => 89.7738
[12] => 89.4001
[13] => 93.37
[14] => 95.19
[15] => 1/2/2013
[16] => 10:28am
[17] => FDX
[18] => FDX
[19] => +2.87 - +3.13%
[20] => FDX
[21] => 594530
)
Alternative method since above does not seem to work on your server:
$ticker_url = '';
$count = count($ticker);
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++)
{
$ticker_url .= (0 === $i)
? $ticker[$i]
: '+' . $ticker[$i];
}
$url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=' . $ticker_url . '&f=snxab2l1va2p2opm3m4ghd1t1=.csv';
$csv = explode("\n", file_get_contents($url));
unset($csv[count($csv) - 1]); // remove empty row
foreach ($csv as $line)
{
$data = str_getcsv($line);
print_r($data);
}

Answer 2

Add an echo $url; , look at the output and then ... look over the other parameters of fgetcsv : http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php (delimiter and enclosure).