Re: [PHP] Re: Screen Scraping using PHP

2002-04-17 Thread Barry C. Hawkins
Colleagues, The term "screen scraping" as I am familiar with it comes from mainframe terminal circles, and refers to capturing the character-based output in a terminal window (or, at one point in history, the terminal "screen") as a text file. I have seen the term used specifically in respect

Re: [PHP] Re: Screen Scraping using PHP

2002-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
Richard Baskett wrote: > > I bet he means when you open up an URL and capture part of the page or the > entire page and post it onto your own site. I've done that with weather.com > where you capture just part of their webpage.. So basically if I wanted to > know what the weather was like in Egy

Re: [PHP] Re: Screen Scraping using PHP

2002-04-17 Thread Richard Baskett
degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington > From: Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Webmotion Inc. > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:58:25 -0400 > To: Julio Nobrega Trabalhando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [PHP] Re: Screen Scraping using PHP

2002-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
Julio Nobrega Trabalhando wrote: > > I read this post a few days ago and didn't know what is "Screen Scrap". I > thought someone would know and would reply to you. > > Well, a long time has passed and none replied. So I make my question, what > are you trying to accomplish in simpler terms?