$Three3 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Hey everyone, I have a quick question. I want to build a web app for myself that will allow me to post stuff to Craigslist and retrieve postings from Craigslists. I am not doing this to spam Craigslist, I am just doing it to learn. My question is: Is this possible? If so, will knowing PHP be enough? Or will I also need to know how to use the cURL library? Thanks in advance for the help and advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOA Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Hey everyone, I have a quick question. I want to build a web app for myself that will allow me to post stuff to Craigslist and retrieve postings from Craigslists. I am not doing this to spam Craigslist, I am just doing it to learn. My question is: Is this possible? If so, will knowing PHP be enough? Or will I also need to know how to use the cURL library? Thanks in advance for the help and advice. php can read from a website in conjunction with xml or ajax. I've done it with php and xml to pull in a blog to a website. Google "importing blogs" or "importing html from a website". I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBG Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Go here: http://clmbot.phdatabase.com/ This is a bot I built to monitor craigslist categories and email or SMS when new items are added. If you want to build something like this you will definitely need to know cURL (not that hard). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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