Re: [PHP] php page scrapping challenge!

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Craige Leeder <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Paragasu,
>
>  Sounds like fun, though not really that difficult. It is a very
>  horrible site, but it shouldnt' take that much to create the script
>  for. They do not, in-fact, use Javascript to pull the movie times from
>  the database. They reload the page with the added querystring
>  variables (for my run through):
>
>  isSearchBy=cin                     // How are we searching
>  visCinID=1000                      // What is the cinema ID
>  visMovieName=Iron+Man    // What movie do we want to see?
>
>  I'd give it a try, but I am not setup to use curl at the moment, and
>  don't anticipate having done so in time to do this.
>
>  What you need to do is access the url that assigns you your session
>  ID, and store that for subsequent curl calls to the server. You should
>  pass it with all of them. You also need to find out where they
>  generate the (what I assume is) dynamic part of their url so you can
>  use that to access the actually movie url. The part in my url was:
>  .../(3yujtbmepau3jb45a22gju55)/...
>
>  Good luck with this project, and let us know how it goes.
>  - Craige
>

ups.. nice to hear someone agree with me =) .. at least i am not alone
saying that.
beautiful website with very poor usability is  really horrible to use. I
will in fact i should
because i don't like the website usability.. get back to you later..