Is PHP the right choice here ?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:01 am
Hi guys,
I'm developing a website (with little experience) that is providing info to customers, What it should actually do is query some external websites, retrieve some data from them, then display it to the user in nice formatted fashion.
I've done such thing before in non-web programming languages (visual basic, etc), but never in PHP or such.
I've downloaded some PHP framework that is able to parse html pages, but after some time that the script is running it is stopped and says that "script time limit exceeded".
The problem is that i'm not sure if PHP is the right choice for this task.
I'm using standard hosting account and don't want to purchase VPS or Dedicated server for this task.
My questions are : 1. Is this possible ? 2. Which languages\technologies should i use ? 3. Security aspects. 4. Samples / Code snippets / Articles / Anything else that might help.
Thanks, SpellTOx.
I'm developing a website (with little experience) that is providing info to customers, What it should actually do is query some external websites, retrieve some data from them, then display it to the user in nice formatted fashion.
I've done such thing before in non-web programming languages (visual basic, etc), but never in PHP or such.
I've downloaded some PHP framework that is able to parse html pages, but after some time that the script is running it is stopped and says that "script time limit exceeded".
The problem is that i'm not sure if PHP is the right choice for this task.
I'm using standard hosting account and don't want to purchase VPS or Dedicated server for this task.
My questions are : 1. Is this possible ? 2. Which languages\technologies should i use ? 3. Security aspects. 4. Samples / Code snippets / Articles / Anything else that might help.
Thanks, SpellTOx.