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I am designing a new website. I am not very familiar with php. I am planning to start a new site wherein i am thinking to get contents of other news websites & update my site automatically as the other sites gets updated. I heard that there is a method to implement this & thats web crawling. can anyone help me out in this ?

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Well you could build a web crawler using PHP (several ways) and you would likely have to make a custom module for each site you're grabbing info off of -- but if you're getting news site data you should probably use RSS feeds. I don't have direct experience with RSS feeds so you might google around for some tutorials on the subject, or maybe someone else here has more experience on the subject.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=PHP+RSS+feed+tutorials&btnG=Search

Good introduction
http://www.press-feed.com/howitworks/rss_tutorial.php

Good luck

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