A couple months back, I asked on a gaming forum if anyone knew of a website that would track your *Steam Wishlist and email you when one of your wishlist games went on sale.
No one at the time knew of a **solution, so I decided to buy "PHP, MySQL and Javascript" and try to roll my own.
I managed to get the basics working.
After the basics, I started thinking about fun stuff I could do with the data I collected from Steam regarding the games that go on sale regularly.
The first part of my code file_get_content's the ***sale page(s) of games, and sucks out the games name, regular price, sale price, and the games homepage URL on Steam.
This is enough to accomplish my basic task.
The second part is where I need help, and that's getting more details on the game.
The additional details I want to get about the game include its Publisher and Developer, and to get that detail I need to go to the games homepage URL I previously got from the global sale page.
The issue is this: Some games have an age-restriction limitation, and you have to fill out a date form before entering the games homepage.
An example of one of those pages would be: http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1250/
I want to be able to POST a legal age to the above URL, and then (this is where I'm hazy) "re-load" the same URL, authorized by my previous POST.
Is that possible?
* Steam is a digital download service for computer games.
** Subsequently, there was another website found. But I was well into developing my solution and having fun.
*** Example: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?specials=1