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Saving information from a different website


garry

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Okay.. so I have a client that wants me to get information about software from download.com and add it to a database. E.g: http://www.download.com/RecordPad-Sound-Recorder/3000-2170_4-10327499.html?cdlPid=10655352

 

From here, I would need a script to save the information to the database about the software such as the licence, requirements, etc. I have no troubles adding information to the database but I was just wondering how you would get the information from the site itself? I have never needed to do this before and was wondering if anyone here knew how this could be done.

 

Thanks!

I know what regex is (even though I have little experience with this). So basically, would I use a file_get_contents to get the contents of all of the website and then use regex to filter the information and put everything into variables? Please let me know if I'm thinking about this in the right context.

 

Also, how much would you expect to charge for a job like this? What is it worth to make something to do this?

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