fetchin information

[fatmach]

i need someone tohelp me  build a script that will fetch infomration on a website, and automatically input it into a database. I know its possible i have reaserached it, and it can be done by using the $curl php technique.

it is not a coplicated job i just dont have time for it.

 

i need the script to access diffrent website, at a specific time of day.

 

i want the sript to automaticlly fetch the data from each site at a spesific time during the day.

 

i really dont know where to start... any help will be apprecited.

I managed to come up with this, but it does not do what i want

 

<?php

class tagSpider
{

var $crl; // this will hold our curl instance
var $html; // this is where we dump the html we get
var $binary; // set for binary type transfer
var $url; // this is the url we are going to do a pass on



function tagSpider()
{
$this->html = "";
$this->binary = 0;
$this->url = "";
}


function fetchPage($url)
{


$this->url = $url;
if (isset($this->url)) {

			$this->ch = curl_init (); // start cURL instance
			curl_setopt ($this->ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // this tells cUrl to return the data
			curl_setopt ($this->ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->url); // set the url to download
			curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // follow redirects if any
			curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, $this->binary); // tell cURL if the data is binary data or not
			$this->html = curl_exec($this->ch); // grabs the webpage from the internet
			curl_close ($this->ch); // closes the connection
			}
}


function parse_array($beg_tag, $close_tag) // this function takes the grabbed html and picked out the pieces we want
{
preg_match_all("($beg_tag.*$close_tag)siU", $this->html, $matching_data); // match data between specificed tags
return $matching_data[0];
}


}
?>

 

 

[gizmola]

i need someone tohelp me  build a script that will fetch infomration on a website, and automatically input it into a database. I know its possible i have reaserached it, and it can be done by using the $curl php technique.

it is not a coplicated job i just dont have time for it.

 

Then why are you here?  This is a forum to help people who are trying to help themselves learn php.