Im trying to do a website for a piece of coursework for my final Uni year.

 

Its to create an online application for users to find out when and what video games are up and coming, and i dont know how i "pull" the information needed about the games from sites such as Amazon or Game for example to my site so the user can see the listings.

 

Obviously i cant just put all games into a database as there are hundreds, and i dont know them all.

 

I hope this makes sense and that someone can help me. Im still pretty new to PHP so "simple" language would help me to understand things quicker for this please haha!

 

Thanks

Kat

Im trying to do a website for a piece of coursework for my final Uni year.

 

Its to create an online application for users to find out when and what video games are up and coming, and i dont know how i "pull" the information needed about the games from sites such as Amazon or Game for example to my site so the user can see the listings.

 

Obviously i cant just put all games into a database as there are hundreds, and i dont know them all.

 

I hope this makes sense and that someone can help me. Im still pretty new to PHP so "simple" language would help me to understand things quicker for this please haha!

 

Thanks

Kat

 

I believe you would need to use an 'api', alternatively you may need these to be developed from a coder, the prices for this sort of thing though may get pretty expensive, here is something I found maybe you can look into it further, I have given you the building block, I also hope someone else on this forum can also assist you.

 

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/2912

Im trying to do a website for a piece of coursework for my final Uni year.

 

Its to create an online application for users to find out when and what video games are up and coming, and i dont know how i "pull" the information needed about the games from sites such as Amazon or Game for example to my site so the user can see the listings.

 

Obviously i cant just put all games into a database as there are hundreds, and i dont know them all.

 

I hope this makes sense and that someone can help me. Im still pretty new to PHP so "simple" language would help me to understand things quicker for this please haha!

 

Thanks

Kat

 

 

Most companies that allow this sort of thing will provide you with an API to facilitate this. Just taking information from someone elses site without asking is going to have you falling foul of copyright.

 

The easiest way is contacting the site and asking a) can you automatically take information and how they will allow this.