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Personally I don't like scraping it's too fragile. Have you looked at the Wiki API which gives live access to Wiki databases. [URL="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page"]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page[/URL] I don't know if it will meet your requirements but it worth a look

First of all this is my first post so be gentle. In terms of Facebook marketing I would create a Fan Page not a group, a Fan page has a number of advantages mainly down to the number of apps that run on a Fan Page that don't work on …

I have read both the books you mention, while they are okay I feel the best way to learn the framework is via the many video and web tutorials. There are a list of these on the Ci wiki [URL="http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Category:Help::Tutorials"]http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Category:Help::Tutorials[/URL]. If you haven't used an MVC framework before your in …

I have no idea about the link but I know that name you will be allocated is your Facebook username, so if you have already defined it at facebook.com/username you won't have a problem.

You need to look at the COM library a set of standard objects that allow applications use features of MS Office programs. Certainly creating excel spreadsheets is easy enough, PHP will need the application installed on the machine it is running on. Here's a sample tutorial - [URL="http://www.rawseo.com/news/2009/06/11/how-to-create-microsoft-office-documents-with-php/"]http://www.rawseo.com/news/2009/06/11/how-to-create-microsoft-office-documents-with-php/[/URL]

Wikipedia has a very comprehensive API [URL="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page"]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page[/URL]

The technique you need to research is called web scraping, as already mentioned it is regarded as somewhat unethical. If you search Google for "PHP Web scraping Tutorials" you will come up with a lot which will give you a good start. You may also wish to search relevant donor …

I would say don't worry about it. I have used linkmarket and you are right you get loads of link request daily. Make sure any site you link to, the content is related to your site. Filling your site with unrelated links will not only appear unprofessional but also Google …

Too many people are getting hung up on the tools, on another forum recently I saw a comment that stated to be able to create web site all you needed to do was learn Dreamweaver. Someone responded with all you need to write a book is learn Microsoft Word. I …