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Answer 1

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You can just add more ticker symbols with a comma, as in:

http://www.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=goog,msft

The response is indeed json. There is a good discussion on Stackoverflow about using the first-class Google Finance APIs to get stock quotes here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/527703/google-financial-api-how-get-stock-quotes

Chris Clark 2009-12-30 15:14:01

Thanks for the comma. I did came across that post, I remember, Anyway there is no real good tutorial, yet, about how to get stockquotes. The current tradevalue, etc. Not straighforward anyway.

Richard 2009-12-30 15:22:44

Answer 2

+1 A:

comma seperate your sybols. http://www.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=goog,osis

runrunraygun 2009-12-30 15:16:22

Thanks, do you also perhaps know what makes the json valid, because I did ltrim($string,'/') to get rid of the forward slashes?

Richard 2009-12-30 15:35:45

This worked I think $response= substr(trim($response), 2);

Richard 2009-12-30 15:40:58

Someone suggested the slashes are to invalidate the json, forcing you to parse it somehow (as you have done above) as some kind of security thing, but I dunno about that sort of thing :)

runrunraygun 2009-12-30 15:49:32

Thanks, I got an associative array I think, I am now reading the php manuel to extract a single value.

Richard 2009-12-30 15:57:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JavaScript_eval.28.29

runrunraygun 2009-12-30 16:03:49

It's an array within an array, I have read that eval is never good, if you can do it in another way. So I will explore that first.

Richard 2009-12-30 16:22:57

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