Re: PHP Data Mining/Data Scraping

We are planning to eventually develop a web service and communicate in this fashion but i want to get something up quiclly that is operational while we spec the project in full. Thanks Shannon ""itoctopus"" <newsgroup@itoctopus.com> wrote in message news:B5.7E.32102.5D240564@pb1.pair.com... > In case you have no control on the other URL, then CURL is probably your > best solution. > Otherwise, a better way to do it is probably to interact with a web > service installed on the other website. > > -- > itoctopus - http://www.itoctopus.com > ""Shannon Whitty"" <shannonw@bigpond.com> wrote in message > news:C2.10.08662.8DEBF464@pb1.pair.com... >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for a piece of software or coding that will let me post a >> form to another URL, accept the response, search it for a specific >> "success" string and then let me continue processing the rest of my >> program. >> >> I want to accept queries on behalf of my supplier, forward it to them >> behind the scenes, accept their response and display it within my >> website. >> >> Has anyone had any experience with this? Is there a simple, basic >> utility to let me do this? >> >> I was kind of hoping I could avoid developing it myself. >> >> Thanks >> Shannon