Well, we can only offer very general guidelines at this stage. What you can do is write a script that: - call all the URLs showing paintball prices (btw what is a paintball?) - extract the product name and price. this will require a specific REGEX for each URL called, and regular testing vs change of page design. the only difficult part is just this: writing and testing custom REGEXes.
In fact, why not actually create a DB and run the script every night (or more often) as a scheduled task to update the DB? HTH Ignatius ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Delorme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:02 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] I got this idea... > Hi! > > I am knew around here, and a newcomer to PHP, but I know enough. I have = > this idea, and I have gone through all the ways that I know off to work = > it, but they dont work. I am a paintball player and I get fustrated = > because there are too many web sites out there that sell paintball = > marker, and gear and things. I would like to take them all, let a client = > search for a spacific thing, and have the search results come up with = > the url to that product, and list them by price. Now, the not-so-easy = > way would be to make a DB and put all the prices in and just list the by = > price. Except that would be a very hard, time consuming work. And, I = > would have to update the db often. I am sure there is an esyer way, but = > I dont know what it is. Thanks for your help! > > > Michael Delorme > www.hybridfusion.com > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
