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Display stock quotes from a CSV file, in this case Microsoft

<?php //stock quote script //this is the url for Microsoft's stock quote , we are opening it for reading $fp = fopen ("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=msft&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv","r"); //this uses the fgetcsv function to store the quote info in the array $data $data = fgetcsv ($fp, 1000, ",") ?> <!-- this is our table which displays the stock info --> <!-- we access the individual items by using $data[0]--> <table> <tr><td>description</td><td>latest figure</td><tr> <tr><td>symbol</td><td><?php echo $data[0] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>last price</td><td><?php echo $data[1] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>date</td><td><?php echo $data[2] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>time</td><td><?php echo $data[3] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>change</td><td><?php echo $data[4] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>open</td><td><?php echo $data[5] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>high</td><td><?php echo $data[6] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>low</td><td><?php echo $data[7] ?></td></tr> <tr><td>volume</td><td><?php echo $data[8] ?></td></tr> </table> <?php //close the filehandle $fp fclose ($fp); ?>