New function needed for existing software
This software is currently written in PHP and uses mysql databases.
I’m looking for a screen scraping function where the software can go to a website like sun wing and do a search for travel packages. Go to Google and do a search for sun wing all one word, it’s a Canadian website for travel packages. Once the packages are found, it will import them into my website with images and text.
My site can be seen here: [login to view URL]
This could lead to full time work, there are a lot of sites to be added into this.
## Deliverables
I’m looking to only add one website at a time that I can search. Later on I’d like to pay to have more websites in the list like sunquest or air canada.
1. build a dropdown list of sites to be scanned like sun wing
2. build a dropdown list of cities for departure point like Vancouver or Toronto, there are about 14 cities to be added from Canada and I can provide those cities.
3. select destination ??" Some departure points only have 2 or 3 destinations
4. select departure date ??" There are only a few different dates that they travel
5. Select Duration either 7 Nights or 14 Nights
Then there should be a button to be clicked called “scan now?? or something like that
The other information on sun wing’s main page like hotel and sun rating are not required for this software.
Once the button is clicked, it should pull the required information:
IMPORTANT: In the list of results, some images do not show up, they should be ignored and not placed on my website.
Required information:
Title:
On the list of results you’ll see the resort name like Oasis America
The software should take the departure city entered and combine it with the resort like this: Toronto to Cancun ??" Oasis America
Departure Date: Nov 28 2008
Duration: 7 Nights or 14 Nights
Meal Plan: Either EP or AI
Description is found if you click on the image of the resort or on the confirm button.
Taxes can be found on the next set of results as well as the flight times.
Please let me know if this can be done or not.
Image:
I’d also like the software to take the image found on the first page of results (on sunwing) and list that as the image on the page on my site. If you right click on the image and then click on properties you can see where they host the image. I’d like to download those images, host them on my site and then every time the software finds a page for “Oasis America?? it just points to the same image on my site, so that I’m not downloading the same image each time.
All of these results should show up in my “all inclusive?? section on [login to view URL]
If you have any suggestions on a better way to do this, just let me know.