php page scrapping challenge!
- From: paragasu@xxxxxxxxx (paragasu)
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:26:22 +0800
well, this going to be fun.
the website i am trying to scrapped is http://www.cathayholdings.com.my/
it is a movie cinema website with very irritating design. They really tried
to imposed the
security to the point it is really not user friendly. The whole website
written in asp.
I really hate to go around looking for the show time for the latest movie
and decided to
build my own simple website to display the movie and show time from the
cathay cinema
my own way.
But, it is proven not so easy to do. The datetime buried deep inside the
online booking. Thus
user will be able to see the showtimes only when the user click the online
booking. Then, after
user click the online booking, the link open on a new window and generate a
cookies. this cookies
will be part of the URL. So basically, there is two cookie value pass to the
server. (one GET request & one in HTTP header)
Apart from that, they use javascript (AJAX?) to pull the showtime from the
server after you have to
click 3 times. OMG.. i only wan't to know the time and have to go thus whole
step.
using php curl library to simulate the request just to get the movie name
and show time list from the
server. it is possible? post your code..
** no reward, just for php programming fun..
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