Re: PHP Data Mining/Data Scraping

On Wed, May 23, 2007 5:37 am, Shannon Whitty wrote: > THanks, > > That's what I thought... > > I really only need to check for one value = "success" - anything else > should > redirect back to the form entry page and display whatever result has > been > returned from the remote site. > > cUrl should be able to differentiate between a connection and an > application > failure shouldn't it? > > The way I see it: > > 1: If I can connect to port80 THEN continue ELSE goto:6 > 2: If I get a response THEN continue ELSE goto:6 > 3: If response contains "result tags" THEN continue ELSE goto:6 > 4: If "result tags" contains "success" THEN goto:5 ELSE goto:7 > 5: Display "success" and finish > 6: Display connection error and resort to email and finish > 7: Reload form and display error returned within "result tags" This looks right, though I won't swear to it with all the goto:s... I'm more of an if/else kinda guy... :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?