Hi, I am in the process of setting up a DVD bargain site and want to run a comparison service on the site. Basically what I want is for a user to be able to imput the name of a DVD, be given the relevant results and when he/she clicks on the DVD of choice be told the price for that DVD at various retailers. I also want it to be able to update the prices as the retailers update theirs. Is this really hard to do? I've had experience in building sites before but nothing like this. I have no databasing experience, if that is even what is needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks Tom
You should use a data base to store your prices, but not the prices of your competitors. Your script would have to read their page where the specific item is listed when a user wanted to make a price comparison. I think that their page would have to make use of xml tags for that to work efficiently though. But I'm not certain.