Php, general usage question.

[Joe2003]

hey

just a general question, never done php but I want to know if it will do what I want.

Say I wanted to right a script that checked if a topic has been updated on a forum, and if it had, output (or update a page or whatever) with the user that has updated that post. The forum wouldnt be local, say this forum even.


Or checking to see what the current time left on an ebay item is?

Is this possible?

thanks

Joe

[unchiujar]

I think you can do that in PHP by downloading the html file, parsing it and comparing to a previous downloaded file.