watthehell Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Hi all.. Now i got to make a website which has a complicated (for me) requirement. I just want to know if this can be done or not. It goes like this : ------------------------------------------------- The website sells motor parts (online). In the front end it shows price and model of different parts found in the market. The admin enters all the stuff at the back end (price and model ) which is reflected in the front end. The complicated part what the client wants is : He wants a script which will run online (basically PHP) which will run in the background and will gather the PRICE from other (rival) websites and update in its own MySQL database. This script will run every hour and update the existing database. This has to be fully automated (as the client says). Is this possible ??? ??? ??? Then how ? Thanks a lot... for seeing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Yes. Automation: CRON (OS dependent) Scraping: file_get_contents() (or CURL if the requirements are more advanced) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.