Archive: spidering

When doing spidering projects or other bulk catalogue management projects for osCommerce sites, I tend to finish by creating easypopulate format files so that the store owner can do any last minute edits and upload the products manually using the easypopulate system. Creating easypopulate format files can be a bit of a chore, especially as [...]

One of the most useful and powerful things you can do with PHP is to create a programme which will simulate a web browser and can grab data, post data to forms and generally interact with other web sites - automatically. For PHP to be able to work like this it must have the CURL [...]