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Finding a reliable feed is your first issue. &nbsp;Do you know of one?
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Finding a reliable feed is your first issue.  Do you know of one?

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Using this search, ...<br />
<a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Spot+Price+Gold" rel="ugc">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Spot+Price+Gold</a><br />
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... I found this data source:<br />
<a href="http://www.goldprice.org/" rel="ugc">http://www.goldprice.org/</a><br />
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I'll post a script to give you the &quot;scrape&quot; of this page in just a moment.
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Using this search, ...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Spot+Price+Gold [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Spot+Price+Gold]

... I found this data source:
http://www.goldprice.org/ [http://www.goldprice.org/]

I'll post a script to give you the "scrape" of this page in just a moment.

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Thanks Ray! &nbsp;Your script works beautifully.<br />
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- Yvan
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Thanks Ray!  Your script works beautifully.

- Yvan

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Thanks for the points. &nbsp;The strategy of &quot;scraping&quot; a web page is a little bit brittle - a change by the author of the page can break your scrape script. &nbsp;So it is fairly important to check for errors and report them in a timely way. &nbsp;You might consider sending yourself an email message if the script makes an error or reports data with a timestamp that is too old. &nbsp;Just a thought. &nbsp;
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Thanks for the points.  The strategy of "scraping" a web page is a little bit brittle - a change by the author of the page can break your scrape script.  So it is fairly important to check for errors and report them in a timely way.  You might consider sending yourself an email message if the script makes an error or reports data with a timestamp that is too old.  Just a thought.  

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Does anyone here know how I might retrieve the current gold price (in US dollars) using PHP? &nbsp;<br />
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Ideally, I'd like to see an example PHP script that retrieves the current gold price (from some kind of remote data feed provider, I'm assuming) and then displays it on the page. <br />
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Thanks,<br />
- Yvan
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Does anyone here know how I might retrieve the current gold price (in US dollars) using PHP?  

Ideally, I'd like to see an example PHP script that retrieves the current gold price (from some kind of remote data feed provider, I'm assuming) and then displays it on the page. 

Thanks,
- Yvan

Retrieving the current gold price (CGP) using PHP

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