Recent content by jayie1975

An update on this problem. I had a response from "lemon-tree" on another thread that this problem might be due to port blocking from the free servers. If this is the case how do I go about adding the "download.finance.yahoo.com" website to the whitelist? Since this is the website I call from...

Thankyou lemon-tree. Do you know if that has been implemented recently? Because that would explain why it's only just stopped working. Although strangely my friend uses Hostgator for his websites and this code also fails. Jason.

I have been using the following code to retrieve stock data from Yahoo for over a year now: $live = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=" . $_GET["code"] . "&f=sb2m3m7et8n4e7e8e9ia2"; $file=fopen($live,"r") or exit("Unable to open file!"); while(!feof($file)) { echo...

I wrote a WordPress widget that extracts data from Yahoo Finance in the form of a csv file (written in PHP). I last tested it a week ago and it worked fine. I came back to it yesterday (thurs) and it's stopped working. It now runs really slowly and doesn't produce any results. I believe it...