[helpmeplease]

i need some help to solve what seems to be a complex problem and I am trying to help my web designer fix the problem. this is probaly posted in the wrong place and I may never get an answer but at this point I am willing to give anything a go

I am trying to get the live world gold price on a web page to do this function.
when you click a button that generates an automatic email. I want to get the price at that time and date to go into the email my page is generating>

The form currently generates other information but I need it to grab the live price from a feed and post that into the form at the exact time that email generates. in effect i need the live price to go acoss to the form put itself in and send in that email message with the other email my form has generated.

If anyone get this please help
The web page is being build in what i think is call CMS and I am new to all this and learning more then I ever wanted to learn. I thank all those out there who get this and make web buillding a true art!

Sorry if I have not posted in the right place I am so crunched for time and desprate to fix my problem.

[oakleaves]

helpmeplease, on 02 February 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

I am trying to help my web designer fix the problem.

The answer to this problem is obvious.

[helpmeplease]

oakleaves, on 02 February 2012 - 03:00 PM, said:

The answer to this problem is obvious.

I was hopping it was but I am not a developer ore a designer. I am just trying to help the girl who is doing this for me.my problem is not the email function. I have to grab the price of gold from a live feed and when a confirm button is clicked get that price at the time of the click to go into that automaticaly generated email.

It sounds like it should be easy but she has no idea how to do that and I am far from ever being able to antything more from a basic edit to my site. So I am lost! Please help!

[Glowbridge]

Disclaimer : I am in no way a developer. There may very well be a mind numbingly easy way to do this on all occasions.

It depends how the gold price is delivered. If you can get it through some kind of API where it just hands you the price as one single bit of data then it shouldn't be too hard to add that in to your average contact form script.

If you have to 'scrape' it out of somewhere (that you perhaps aren't supposed to..) then hire a PHP Developer. I've dabbled once in that area, I tried to write a script that isolated YouTube video ID's from the URL's, that come in various formats.. then feed it into an embed script. Now I don't think I'm a stupid guy but my brain nearly exploded trying to get used to regular expressions.

[helpmeplease]

Glowbridge, on 02 February 2012 - 11:22 PM, said:

Disclaimer : I am in no way a developer. There may very well be a mind numbingly easy way to do this on all occasions.

It depends how the gold price is delivered. If you can get it through some kind of API where it just hands you the price as one single bit of data then it shouldn't be too hard to add that in to your average contact form script.

If you have to 'scrape' it out of somewhere (that you perhaps aren't supposed to..) then hire a PHP Developer. I've dabbled once in that area, I tried to write a script that isolated YouTube video ID's from the URL's, that come in various formats.. then feed it into an embed script. Now I don't think I'm a stupid guy but my brain nearly exploded trying to get used to regular expressions.

the live price comes from a page called kitco www.kitco.com they offer the service of a live price via a chart for free to anyone. thats about all i know about the technicals of the live feed. I will pass the info onto my developer and see if this helps her out. As i know nothing about this stuff and really have no clue at all I will pass it along to hear and hope she can provide some feed back or some further question> Thank You

[NoClass]

I can't help as such but I can raise some questions, potential problems and tips with what you are trying to do.

helpmeplease, on 02 February 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

The web page is being build in what i think is call CMS

CMS is Content Management System, not a language. The question is was the content management system (where you login and change stuff) made by the designer (coded) or is it 'off the shelf' (wordpress etc)

helpmeplease, on 02 February 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

when you click a button that generates an automatic email. I want to get the price at that time and date to go into the email my page is generating

Is this for public use or is it behind the scenes (inside the cms)?

helpmeplease, on 02 February 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

the live price comes from a page called kitco www.kitco.com they offer the service of a live price via a chart for free to anyone.

I checked the site an yes you can use their charts for free just as you can embed a youtube video in a web page. I can't find (at a glance) any way of grabbing the data in it's pure form (feed). I think a quick email to kitco would help you find out if the data is available. In general terms if the data isn't easy to get you shouldn't be getting it. Would it not be better to get the gold prices etc direct from a stock market type site? I'm sure they are more likely to have live feeds for the stock market prices of things?

Another way to approach this is get the email form to turn into a PDF and send as an attachment, a bit like print page. This method is often used for online billing process however if you can't 'get' the data then embed it as a graph and turn it into a pdf. Once turned into a PDF it's as such a 'print out' and will display the data at the time of creation.

I hope this helps.