ktsirig Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Hello,I am supposed to construct a page that searches in specific websites to extract information, like those sites from where you can rent a car for example. There is a form in the site where the user selects some fields (for instance departure and drop-off date), then the data are submitted to the other page that searches 2-3 sites and finds which cars are available on those dates.I wanted to ask if there are ready scripts to do that, if not, some hints on how to start.I am familiar with PHP forms and data extraction from mysql databases, but when you extract data from other sites, I have no clue how I can begin and deal with it... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/25995-web-crawler-php/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Most of those referal type sites would actually have a deal with several car rental places and I would assume access to there database. Using screen scraping for this sort of infomation would be pretty unreliable at best. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/25995-web-crawler-php/#findComment-118812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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