public static function getTicker()
{
$stocks = "goog,yhoo,idt,iye,mill,pwer,spy,f,msft,x,sbux,sne,ge,dow,t,ge";
$stocks_db = Prediction::find_last_search_FOR_tickers();
$stocks = $stocks_db ? $stocks_db : $stocks;
$grabbed_record = array();
$i = -1;
foreach (explode(",", $stocks) as $stock) {
$i++;
// Where the stock quote info file should be...
$local_file = storage_path() . DS . 'cache' . DS . $stock . ".csv";
if (!file_exists($local_file) || filemtime($local_file) <= time() - 60 * 60 * 24) {
//<-- Else,If it's out-of-date by 15 mins (900 seconds) or more, update it.
upsfile($stock);
//<--functiom calls to update remote file to local
}
// Open the file, load our values into an array...
$local_file = fopen($local_file, "r");
$stock_info = fgetcsv($local_file, 1000, ",");
$font_color = $stock_info[2] >= 0 ? "color: #009900;" : "color: #ff0000;";
$sign = $stock_info[2] >= 0 ? "↑" : "↓";
$grabbed_record[$i]['symbol'] = $stock_info[0];
$grabbed_record[$i]['font_color'] = $font_color;
$grabbed_record[$i]['direction'] = $sign;
$grabbed_record[$i]['curr_rate'] = sprintf("%.2f", $stock_info[1]);
$grabbed_record[$i]['chng_rate'] = sprintf("%.2f", abs($stock_info[2]));
fclose($local_file);
//<--closes each opened files
}
return $grabbed_record;
}
