parse variables in ebay auctions?

Anon

I looked through the docs and cannot find if this is possible. What I wan't to do is in the html for our auctions embed the variables I need something like below:

then the I give my php script an auction I want to enter in the database and it retrieves these values from

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=$auctionnum

so they can be entered into a mySQL database. If such a thing is possible but you don't have the time to post some sample code, just pointing me in the right direction would be great. The next logical step would be retrieving the winning bidders, though I wouldn't be able to control the format of the page so it would be subject to 'breakage' if and when eBay changed the layout.

Thanks in advance,
Brandon

yelvington

If I understand what you mean, you should be able to do it with regular expressions.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php

Anon

I'm assuming I need to use include or fopen for the page

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=$auctionnum

but after reading how to use the ereg function for the last hour I am as confused as ever as to how I will retrive those embedded values. I will keep trying but if anyone has any suggestions or perhaps a link to a tutorial that shows how to use ereg to retrieve data from a remote page I would really appreciate it.

Brandon

lucidfx

$output="http://www.theurlwhatever.";
$output = implode("\n", file($output));

Read up on these functions thats going to put the content of that site into $output.

Then you can search through $ouput for <!---wmspartnum=[ then get next numbers til ] to get first var then do that for all of them.

im pretty sure this will work, i just wrote it here so if you cant figure it out from this then let me know and ill try to whip up a demo.

did that answer the question?

Anon

Search SourceForge.net for ebay parse, that might help you out, you can probably mod that script