mastubbs Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Hi all, I've been trying to figure this out for a while now with no luck. I am setting up an online store and my supplier provides a RSS feed (online) to say which products are in stock. I am trying to have this feed populate a mySQL database by a chron job (or equivilent) say every hour or so. The database is actually a oscommerce database so that way i can keep the stock levels for my store up-to-date. Does anyone know how to make a script in php that can do this? Im sure it can be done. Thanks guys. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyres Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 If you are going to do it from cron, take a look at perl - it has a lot of useful xml related modules for parsing xml files. You can run php scripts from the command line, but it probably is better to use perl for that, and I would suggest NOT having your cron job do it through a web interface - involving a http server in the loop of getting data from a flat file to database is not necessary, and it's probably not a good idea from a security standpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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