Hi, I'm going to preface this with the fact that i am a noob and i took java in college so in theory i understand how to program, i just dont do it or am familiar with syntax. (which in retrospect might mean that i dont actually understand how to program) The situation:: I play Warhammer Online and im trying to build a page to get stats on the progress of the WAR. The status of my project:: i've created a program that will so far, go to the page and successfully check the icons for what fortresses are captured. I used cURL and a string search. What i NEED help with is figuring out a way to automatically search that page once per hour, to store the variable increments between searches (do i just declare global variables??), and to report ( i can echo them on the page) and then reset the variables at the end of the week. (this last part will be answered by the blue question i think) even if its sending me to several resources in the PHP manual to read and learn on my own i really appreciate it. i dont know how to describe what i want in the search box for the php search engine to link me to what i need there. Thanks much Chris
been doing a bit of reading. Should i start investigating mysql, is this something i can do using a database? at least for the storing of variables and such, right? i will just need to figure out how to make it ping up the target site once per hour now.