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Product Comparison Website

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:27 am
by shou
Hello All,

I work as a senior programmer for a web development company in India. This being my first post, Iwould like to thank you all for your contribuations which educates countless many (including myself!) about PHP Programming

Recently we have been told to work on application which will rank medical products from diffrent web sites based on prices. The examples that I have been provided are:

http://www.pillrank.com

If you see this website, it lists several products in diffrent categories. Upon selecting any product, a details page which contains prices from many websites are shown. On clicking the order button the user a taken directly to checkout page of that website for which the price has been selected. Much like an affiliate program !

Now for the clients website, he wants the prices to be updated automatically if the pricing is changed in any of the supplier website. Can this be done ?

I was thinking of using XML but I have no idea of whether these sites use XML for providing data. Do I have an alternative here ? :?:

I am in a fix. Please do check pillrank website to understand what do I mean.

Thanks,
Shou

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:32 am
by qads
you could ask the website, but i dont think they will let you gona have a price list so you can check it out and take your prices down a penny or something...another way would to use the item ID to visit the website with php functions like fopen etc and then parse the page, takening out anything you dont need and leaveing the price.