Muslim prayer times by web scraping

Here I'll show how to get Muslim pray times by web scraping. Web scraping is one of the methods to implement mashup.

<?php

$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.e-solat.gov.my/solat.php?kod=sgr03&lang=ENG');
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

if (empty($buffer)) {
    print '<a href="http://www.e-solat.gov.my/">Prayer Time</a>';
} else {
    $waktu_s = array('imsak', 'subuh', 'syuruk', 'zohor', 'asar', 'maghrib', 'isyak');
    $w = array();
    foreach ($waktu_s as $waktu) {
        $w[] = "<tr.*?>.*?<td.*?>.*?$waktu.*?<\/td>.*?<td.*?>.*?(?P<
$waktu>\d?\d:\d\d).*?<\/td>.*?<\/tr>";
    }
    $t = join(".*?", $w);
    $regex = "/<table.*?>.*?$t.*?<\/table>/si";
    $result = "";
    if (preg_match($regex, $buffer, $matches)) {
        $result = '<table border="1"><caption>Kuala Lumpur</caption>';
        $result .= '<thead><tr>';
        foreach ($waktu_s as $waktu) {
            $result .= "<th>".ucfirst($waktu)."</th>";
        }
        $result .= '</tr></thead>';
        $result .= '<tbody><tr>';
        foreach ($waktu_s as $waktu) {
            $result .= "<td>".$matches[$waktu]."</td>";
        }
        $result .= '</tr></tbody>';
        $result .= '</table>';
    }
    print $result;
}

?>

Example of output as below:

Kuala Lumpur

Imsak	Subuh	Syuruk	Zohor	Asar	Maghrib	Isyak
5:29	5:39	6:58	13:00	16:19	18:58	20:09

I'll leave to you as exercise to show the date of prayer times, GMT and qiblat direction.