Allie Micka wrote:
I'm not sure if its in line with what you're up to, or if the creator
plays well with others, but check out http://www.cin-o-matic.com/
He's got reviews, Netflix integration, local listings and syndicated
watch lists. But apparently no Amazon stuff. Perhaps you can get your
peanut butter on his chocolate, or vice versa.
Thanks for the link. It's funny how last week's discussion about feature
overlap applies all over. There's some pretty heavy overlap, but some
interesting pieces on either side that the other doesn't have. I'll have
to look more closely and drop him a line.
Some of my desire comes from genuinely wanting this stuff as a user.
However, I'll admit that some of it comes with my facination with using
PHP and huge piles of data to do interesting things (i.e Dmoz.org's
data, weather.gov's XML feeds, . The "hack" value and experience solving
this type alone is worth the effort even if there is overlap. When
combined with my attempts at home automation and home theater setup, it
just ends up being a geeky equivalent to spending an afternoon sitting
on the lake waiting for the fish to bite. You could easily walk into the
fish market and get high quality seafood, but fishing's about the
experience.
Incidentally, all of this reminded me of a question I wanted ask a while
back and never got around to.
I'm sure lots of you have used the LiveHTTP Headers feature in Mozilla.
What I'm wondering is if anyone has written any PHP that takes a
"recorded" session and will spit out the PHP/CURL code to replicate that
session. Just in case anyone thinks that this is only useful for
spoofing your spider's identity and making it look like a normal
browsing session, what I really (meaning for professional purposes) need
this for is easily scripting tests of sites as well as integrating
things like a forum (that has it's own login mechanism) with another
script using a different login system without the user needing to log
into both.
