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Yahoo YQL Yahoo News Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a tutorial that may be introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on the previous previous relevant YQL Server tutorials starting with Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Next Tutorial<\/a> as shown below. Today we show that you don’t have to use JSON for this work if you don’t want to, but it is advised for data with structural complication. It is just that today’s data, the headlines of Yahoo News, has a very simple data structure. In the case of a very simple data structure you can use the PHP explode<\/a> method to create a one dimensional array of headlines from the file_get_contents() YSQL url data. The explode PHP function can become a very clever and close friend, but worry about if you are all rooming together and you have a roster for the washing up … “explode” might explode your regime … chortle, chortle.<\/p>\n

With programming, if there are several ways to solve things, and it is good to try other ways sometimes, so that you get the practice, and as a way to simplify code, sometimes. Also, the cat, though skinned horizontally, will show you that little bit of extra attention.<\/strike> (don’t know what got into me)<\/p>\n

In the same mode of subject matter, it is also good to settle on good methods if they work, because, after all, what is most important is that the method works, and you try to have it work as “advertised” (sometimes this is a bit harder than you might think, with the rapidly changing software trends and arrangements with Web Services, in particular).<\/p>\n

Have we rabbitted on enough, or would you like some facts about hare<\/a>“s<\/a>“? … chortle, chortle.<\/p>\n

Here is a link to some downloadable HTML programming source code which you may want to rename to yahoonews_yql.html<\/a> which calls some downloadable PHP programming source code which you may want to rename to yahoonews_yql.php<\/a><\/p>\n

The PHP function used is:<\/p>\n