$schedule) { printf("%6s %8s %8s %-60s %s\n", ($count == 1 ? date("M d", $schedule["depart"]) : ""), date("g:i A", $schedule["depart"]), date("g:i A", $schedule["arrive"]), str_repeat("$", $schedule["price"]), money_format("$%i", $schedule["price"])); $count++; } } // Retrieve a bus schedule on a certain day function get_bus_schedule($origin, $dest, $date) { $response = do_post_request( "http://www.megabus.com/us/index.php", array( "pax_standard" => "1", "promoCode" => "", "origin" => $origin, "dest" => $dest, "depart" => $date, "return" => "-1", "show_routes" => "1", )); preg_match_all("/outwardJourneyID\" value=\"([0-9]*)\" \/>.*\n" . ".*([^<]*)<\/span>.*Depart (.*) ?
.*\n". ".*Arrive (.*) ? .*small_bold_blue\">([^<]*).*\n". ".*small_bold_blue\">([0-9]*) .* = \\$([0-9.]*)/", $response, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER); foreach($matches as $match) { $schedules[$match[1]] = array( "depart" => strtotime($match[2], $date), "origin" => $match[3], "arrive" => strtotime($match[5], $date), "dest" => $match[4], "seats" => $match[6], "price" => $match[7] / $match[6]); } return $schedules; } // I didn't write this, I found it here: http://netevil.org/blog/2006/nov/http-post-from-php-without-curl function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) { $params = array("http" => array( "method" => "POST", "content" => http_build_query($data))); if ($optional_headers !== null) $params["http"]["header"] = $optional_headers; $ctx = stream_context_create($params); $fp = @fopen($url, "rb", false, $ctx); if (!$fp) throw new Exception("Problem with $url, $php_errormsg"); $response = @stream_get_contents($fp); if ($response === false) throw new Exception("Problem reading data from $url, $php_errormsg"); return $response; } ?>