I'm helping a friend out by helping him set up a few internet shops. We are using oScommerce (a php open source shopping cart) and I would like to program a script that automates our product adding.
If I was to do this MANUALLY!!!!!!!!
Lets say we are going to have 500+ products for these websites, that means I'll have to manually:
goto each product url
start typing/copying pasting the descriptiong for product
insert price
save image/upload image
update product listing.
Now if I made a perl script to automate process:
Have LWP retrieve page by having product url ( a simple text file list with 100 different product urls, that way I can use a foreach statement and have LWp retrieve each url by url)
Parse description from product url page.
save image/uplaod image (*Is this possible?)
use DBI module to update mysql DB for each product listing (instead of having to use the oScommerce admin interface to add product info)
Basically what im trying to do is make a script that automates this process I would have to go through If i was to add each product detail manually to the shopping cart DB.
About the saving images, I wanted to save a product image from a another website to my server. Is that possible??
When parsing the website with the product image I want to retrieve, it'll look for the image file name.