Need help in xml coupon feed.

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    I am trying to find xml coupon feed. which I can use for my own project. I tried to find Xml code but couldn't find anything on internet.

    Any suggestion or help.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 13, 2010 IP
  2. MayaLocke

    MayaLocke Peon

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    Many of the deal of day and discount sites have RSS feeds available of their "discounts" is that what you are looking for?
     
    MayaLocke, Mar 15, 2010 IP
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    I think he's really searching for it because the biggest discounts/coupons/deals websites are using feeds RSS so maybe if you explain a bit better your "project" or idea... maybe we can help you a bit more!! What do you think?
     
    YoGem, Mar 15, 2010 IP
  4. aghahassan

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    I am trying to build a discount coupon database. Initially I was entering the coupon data manually, but I read somewhere that if I can populate the coupon table automatically through xml.

    I searched on several website but I couldn't find any xml code which I use for the coupon table.

    Now my question is, is there any website which provides xml code or if you have any other idea it will be really appreciated.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 15, 2010 IP
  5. YoGem

    YoGem Active Member

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    Ok, Feeds RSS and XML are almost the same thing! It's not hard, follow me.

    Take 3 or 4 websites that are giving Feeds of coupons, like couponchief.com/rss/

    They give you a complete list of coupons, daily via RSS.

    Now, install Wordpress and some plugins that read and convert in content a feed!

    Otherwise hire someone (me, for example) here to create a CMS that will work on purpose!

    Edit: If you have a good hosting, a VPS/dedicated server, the best option is to hire someone to create a crawler that can copy from other websites also HTML content - If you are on a shared hosting and without many opportunity of using a lot of resources the best thing is to create a CMS that daily will crawl (via CRON scripts) the feeds from other websites.

    There are many opportunity, choose which one is for you :)
     
    YoGem, Mar 15, 2010 IP
  6. aghahassan

    aghahassan Peon

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    Well I am willing to pay if you do it for me.

    let me know if you wanna do it.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 17, 2010 IP
  7. YoGem

    YoGem Active Member

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    Mmm... I need to know something! How many time I have and your budget :) Don't worry, send me a PM with your ideas.
     
    YoGem, Mar 17, 2010 IP
  8. aghahassan

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    As I told you I am building a discount coupon system. Now the problem is, I want to populate the coupon table in sql database through xml. I want to load xml data in sql server 2008. So I think I need two things:
    a. Discount coupon xml
    b. How to connect xml and sql or how to load xml into sql server 2008
    As you told me that you can do it. I really appreciate, if you help me out and I am a undergraduate student so I can pay around $40.
    Plz let me know if you have any question. i will be really thank ful if you finish this thing as soon as possible.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 17, 2010 IP
  9. YoGem

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    Mmm... ok :) But are you building it? Using Wordpress or with static pages? Yes, I can do it! But let me know more informations of your website or if you don't have one, so I know if I need to start from the scratch or not.
     
    YoGem, Mar 18, 2010 IP
  10. aghahassan

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    I am working on the database. I will send you the coupon table info by tomorrow.

    I hope that will help you out a bit. yep i m building it and i am not using wordpress.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 18, 2010 IP
  11. aghahassan

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    Hey YoGem, I am still waiting.....plzz let me r u done with that or are u still working on it. or r u still waiting for something else plz hit me back.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 21, 2010 IP
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    I am waiting you :) Send me a PM with your website!!!
     
    YoGem, Mar 21, 2010 IP
  13. aghahassan

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    i am still working on my website. i have this coupon sql table

    Coupon
    Couon_Id
    Vendor_Id
    Coupon_Description
    Expiration_Date

    Now I need xml code which populate this table automatically from some discount coupon website.
    If you want to make some changes, plz feel free to make it.

    Plz help me out. I dont know how to do this thing.

    I hope now u understand the problem very well.

    Thanks
     
    Last edited: Mar 21, 2010
    aghahassan, Mar 21, 2010 IP
  14. YoGem

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    Yes, now it's clear ;) I am creating the script with relative daily cron job :)
     
    YoGem, Mar 21, 2010 IP
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    hello there,

    r u still working on the script man. I dont have enough time. so plz tell me about it.
     
    aghahassan, Mar 28, 2010 IP