Review: Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers

Posted by tripwire45 on May 5, 2007 5:37 PM EDT
certforums.co.uk; By James Pyles
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The book assumes a few things about the reader, which is good. If you aren't part of the "assumed" group, this book won't be very interesting or at least not very useful. Here they are...there are only two: The first assumption is that you know how to program. There are no details about to what degree, so I'll assume that basic programming skills will be sufficient. The second assumption is a little more specific. You'll need to have at least a basic understanding of PHP. If you need help in these areas, try reading books like Beginning PHP5, Learning PHP5, and perhaps some other beginner's programming book.

As with most books and especially most programming books. there's a companion website which in this case is http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/. Once there, you can download code libraries and sample scripts. The only provision is that you can't use these materials commercially (which is a bummer if you do this professionally...still, it's best to play by the rules).

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