HTTP Navigator 2 is a set of PHP classes, based on perl's LWP, for sending and receiving HTTP messages. It is no way near as feature rich or stable as LWP, and only supports HTTP scheme. For a general idea of how to start using HTTP Navigator, please refer to the test files, also have a look at a href="http://www.k1m.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=HttpNavigatorDocs"the documentation page/a. This is still in it's early stages, feedback appreciated.
phpCNN is a set of PHP scripts that checks CNN.com for news articles at time-intervals you specify, and grabs/parses the main news article posted on the main page. phpCNN then saves the information, including the article's picture, to MySQL. The layout and functionality is fully customizable.
YES.Net Song Grabber is a simply script that allows you to insert the current song being played on almost any US radio station and easily insert anywhere into your web page.
phpBuoy is a simple little PHP script which parses the realtime buoy data provided by the National Data Buoy Center and presents it in a nicely formatted HTML table. It's quite easy to use as a PHP or SSI include and the script can get data for any buoy listed on the NDBC site. There are complete customization instructions included within the file, including the ability to display data in metric or English measurements, select from 12 or 24 hour clock, and choose from American MM-DD-YYYY or International DD-MM-YYYY date formats.
A class written in php to get realtime status from a HL(Half-Life,CounterStrike, etc.)/Quake3,RTCW/Tribes 2/Medal of Honor/UT2003 and more game-servers.
This class pulls current weather and weather forecast information from interceptvector.com's XML feeds. interceptvector provides comprehensive US and international feeds. The class can be used to easily add weather statistics and weather forecast information to any website that supports php. Comments and an example script are included. Released via GPL.
phpMySetiStats is a PHP script that allows you to 'grab' information from your personal statistics page. Additionally, it can display realtime information about running clients. Supports multiple languages. It uses MySQL on backend. Cron is also recommended.
This class allows you to check to see if a particular web page has been updated recently. It doesn't show what the changes were, just the fact that it's been altered in some way since you last checked the site. Great if you want to provide a quick indication to users that some remote page has been updated.