This site was made by Richard Allen as a play-around with Twitter Bootstrap. The FTSE data is pulled from Google finance using the =googlefinance function within Google Docs. Although it aims to be real time, and most quotes are accurate to less than a few second; note that some may be delayed up to 20 minutes. For this reason this isn't to be used for trading or advice and is provided "as is" solely for informational purposes. You're more than welcome to use this for non-commercial use, but it's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.. If you have any questions feel free to get in contact with me!....Enjoy!!!<>/p>

Complete data feed

A complete feed of the dataset can be requested via the following request;

XML(ATOM)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AhySzEddwIC1dEtpWF9hQUhCWURZNEViUmpUeVgwdGc/1/public/basic Try it

JSON-P

https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AhySzEddwIC1dEtpWF9hQUhCWURZNEViUmpUeVgwdGc/1/public/basic?alt=json-in-scriptTry it

JSON

https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AhySzEddwIC1dEtpWF9hQUhCWURZNEViUmpUeVgwdGc/1/public/basic?alt=json Try it

RSS

https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AhySzEddwIC1dEtpWF9hQUhCWURZNEViUmpUeVgwdGc/1/public/basic?alt=rss Try it

Query Feed

A query can be made for a single company using the following request;

https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AhySzEddwIC1dEtpWF9hQUhCWURZNEViUmpUeVgwdGc/1/public/basic?sq=symbol=

The available companies can be found in the next section.

List of available companies and symbols

	
// url
$rss_url = 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0AhySzEddwIC1dEtpWF9hQUhCWURZNEViUmpUeVgwdGc/1/public/basic?alt=rss';
// get the complete rss feed
$rss_result= file_get_contents($rss_url);
// create empty array to store results of regex match, gets overwritten each time
$preg_match_result_array = array();
// create empty array to store all the array items once extracted by the loop
$complete_preg_match_result_array = array();
// split rss feed into items, another array, split by 'item' tag
$rss_array = explode('',$rss_result);
// print_r($array); use this if you want to see how that looks
// loop over rss items array and extract the required values using a regex, 
// to understand better what this is doing take a look at the output of the print_r on the line above
foreach($rss_array as $key => $value) {
// extract the title and description from the string, store results in $preg_match_result_array
preg_match('/.*name:\s+(.*),\s+price:\s+(.*),\s+change:\s+(.*)/', $value, $preg_match_result_array);
// push extracted fields array into permemnent array
$complete_preg_match_result_array[] = $preg_match_result_array;
}

// now we have a tidy, multidimensional array with the fields we want
// do a 
// print_r($complete_preg_match_result_array);
// to see the structure
// if you want to extract more/different fields, modify the regex. each capturing group e.g. (.*) is pushed into the array

// now we can loop over the results array and print the values nicely
print ' <table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-condensed">
 <tr>
 <td>Company </td>
 <td>Price </td>
 <td>Change </td>

';

foreach($complete_preg_match_result_array as $key => $value) {

print '
 <tr>
 <td>'.$value[1].' </td>
 <td>'.$value[2].' </td>
 <td>'.$value[3].' </td>
 </tr>
';
}
print '     </table>';
?>