New to this looking for some guidence

sparker366

Now I have never claimed when I was doing htm/css/php I was good. What might take you several hours to crank out took me several days to do. I do want to state up front for informational purpose only that I do have issues with memory and processing information due to a serious illness back in 1998.

What I am looking to do here is flesh out a project plan that I can follow to create a webpage that will allow people I link it too to choose parts from Newegg to build a computer. The final page would start off with a drop down for each part needed for a build. The can select items from each drop down. Then hit a submit button and it will generate a nice page displaying an image of the item then the item name (linked to the Newegg page) and then some how scrape the page for the product to return the current price.

I want to do this in baby steps. Create some static pages with html/css to display this information. Basically relearning html/css. Once I get that down then migrate that to php to pull the information from a database and create the final output page.

Again treat me as starting fresh with very little knowledge of this. What resources do I need to look at for this? What tools do I need for this? I see alot of people use NotePad ++ to do this. I have no issues with that but is there something free that would be better for just starting out. If I were to look for books which would you suggest? I don't buy physical books any more. I do electronic.

I plan on installing xampp to do all local dev work then upload to my site. I'm not asking for hand holding here. Just a gentle nudge in the correct direction to learn this. Also some place to ask coding questions as the project progresses.

bradgrafelman

My first tip for you would be to contact Newegg.com's legal department and obtain explicit permission to do what you're talking about since you would otherwise be in violation of their Policy & Agreement document:

Newegg.com wrote:
You specifically agree not to access or attempt to access the Website, or any portion thereof, through any automated means, including but not limited to the use of scripts or web crawlers.
...
You agree that you will not duplicate, reproduce, copy, sell, trade or resell the Website for any purpose

sparker366

Never thought there would be an issue but will store everything locally which is not against anything there. I see it all the time on forums and such. So with the potential legality issue avoided can we move forward?

johanafm

sparker366;11033373 wrote:
will store everything locally which is not against anything there

Except for these 3…

Newegg.com wrote:
duplicate, reproduce, copy

Weedpacket

And still ignores:

You specifically agree not to access or attempt to access the Website, or any portion thereof, through any automated means, including but not limited to the use of scripts or web crawlers.

sparker366

johanafm;11033393 wrote:
Except for these 3…

What am I duplicating, copying, or reproducing. I am storing a 2 urls and a price?

Weedpacket;11033397 wrote:
And still ignores:
"You specifically agree not to access or attempt to access the Website, or any portion thereof, through any automated means, including but not limited to the use of scripts or web crawlers. "

Tell me how I am accessing this with a script. I said I will store the information locally.

You know what. Mr Super mod that blew this idea of out of the water how about you delete this whole thread and I will move on. For your information I have seen links and prices to neweggs stuff all over technical forums. I will be getting the url for the items page manually storing it in the db only with the items image link and the price. NO SCRIPT. Does that go against that. I don't see how it does.

But please close and delete this thread its of no use to me or anyone.

bradgrafelman

sparker366;11033399 wrote:
What am I duplicating, copying, or reproducing. I am storing a 2 urls and a price?

What information are you duplicating and or copying? The "2 urls and a price" (well, mostly just the price).

sparker366;11033399 wrote:
Tell me how I am accessing this with a script.

You said so yourself in your original post:

sparker366;11033367 wrote:
some how scrape the page for the product to return the current price.

Lastly, thread closed as requested.