Mike Mackrory wrote: > I have an interesting question. > > I wrote an Access application a year or two ago that I'm looking at rewriting > as a web app. One thing I'm not sure I can move over to a web app is a tool > I put together to let the users extract data from web pages. > > In the Access App, I open a browser window, they can log into the secure > site, find the page with the data they need, then click a button and the > program then takes the HTML source, parses out the necessary info and then > loads it into the local database. > > Does anyone know if this is possible to do using PHP or JavaScript. Using an > IFrame would be perfect, but since the site they want to extract the info > from is on a different domain this doesn't appear to be possible. Anyone > have any idea's of how I could do this? The big obstacle is just finding a > way to get the source code of the web page being viewed. > > Thanks > > Mike In addition to the things others have suggested, PHP can interface with various databases, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
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