Re: [PHP-DB] need an idea...

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk
You would probably need some API plugins to search other websites. I've seen some people open socket connections, open the site and read the raw HTML from the socket into a buffer and then parse out the information that way. I don't know if PHP was really developed for such a purpose? Maybe

[PHP-DB] need an idea...

2002-09-06 Thread Bo
Hi, I'm wondering how can I write some php script to scan a couple of(or more) websites to find out the lowest price of a particular item? what is the idea behind this kind of programing? Also, I am always wondering how does the pricewatch website works? (I don't think that they did page by page