I am creating a snow skiing website and on the site I have a list of ski resorts. I would like to have the weather conditions for that resort show up on my site. Many ski websites already do this, and I need to know what this process of grabing text from another website and displaying it on mine is called and what i need learn to get this on my site. Any help or sugestions would be very helpful.

You'll need scripting language first of all Do you know one? As i know in PHP it could be done with using a sockets. Also you may try to look for an existing script...

would php be the best language to use for this situation, or would perl be, or another language?

You can use every server side language, but PHP is most popular.

You could try the Weather Channel I have used it on a few client's sites and it seems to work rather nice.

Yah, TWC is a good choice, or you can just hop around cgi-resources.com or hotscripts.com

-Brian