fatmach Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 i need someone tohelp me build a script that will fetch infomration on a website, and automatically input it into a database. I know its possible i have reaserached it, and it can be done by using the $curl php technique. it is not a coplicated job i just dont have time for it. i need the script to access diffrent website, at a specific time of day. i want the sript to automaticlly fetch the data from each site at a spesific time during the day. i really dont know where to start... any help will be apprecited. I managed to come up with this, but it does not do what i want <?php class tagSpider { var $crl; // this will hold our curl instance var $html; // this is where we dump the html we get var $binary; // set for binary type transfer var $url; // this is the url we are going to do a pass on function tagSpider() { $this->html = ""; $this->binary = 0; $this->url = ""; } function fetchPage($url) { $this->url = $url; if (isset($this->url)) { $this->ch = curl_init (); // start cURL instance curl_setopt ($this->ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // this tells cUrl to return the data curl_setopt ($this->ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->url); // set the url to download curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // follow redirects if any curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, $this->binary); // tell cURL if the data is binary data or not $this->html = curl_exec($this->ch); // grabs the webpage from the internet curl_close ($this->ch); // closes the connection } } function parse_array($beg_tag, $close_tag) // this function takes the grabbed html and picked out the pieces we want { preg_match_all("($beg_tag.*$close_tag)siU", $this->html, $matching_data); // match data between specificed tags return $matching_data[0]; } } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 i need someone tohelp me build a script that will fetch infomration on a website, and automatically input it into a database. I know its possible i have reaserached it, and it can be done by using the $curl php technique. it is not a coplicated job i just dont have time for it. Then why are you here? This is a forum to help people who are trying to help themselves learn php. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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