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How to display stock quotes on your website using Yahoo quotes

How to display stock quotes on your website using Yahoo quotes

<?php 
Class yahoo 
{ 
function get_stock_quote($symbol) 
{ 
$url = sprintf("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%s&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv" ,$symbol); 
$fp = fopen($url, "r"); 
if(!fp) 
{ 
echo "error : cannot recieve stock quote information"; 
} 
else 
{ 
$array = fgetcsv($fp , 4096 , ', '); 
fclose($fp); 
$this->symbol = $array[0]; 
$this->last = $array[1]; 
$this->date = $array[2]; 
$this->time = $array[3]; 
$this->change = $array[4]; 
$this->open = $array[5]; 
$this->high = $array[6]; 
$this->low = $array[7]; 
$this->volume = $array[8]; 
} 
} 
} 
$quote = new yahoo; 
$quote->get_stock_quote("MSFT"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->symbol</B><br>"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->time</B><br>"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->date</B><br>"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->last</B><br>"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->change</B><br>"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->high</B><br>"); 
echo ("<B>$quote->low</B><br>"); 

?>