Item Database Suggestion

Shadow7 · **Posted:** May 17th, 2008, 1:10 pm

I don't know how practical this is; however, with the current structure of the Runescape website, you can simply go into the Grand Exchange link and look up the price of an item. Is there any possibility of making it so that when a person looks up a specific item in the RV item database that it would simply pull the value off of this GE database from the website, always giving them an up-to-date value on the price without any need to create a database?

Sweep · **Posted:** May 17th, 2008, 1:29 pm

Yes it is possible. Runescript currently does this.

Dark Paladin · **Posted:** May 17th, 2008, 2:46 pm

We actually also thought about that, but the only person who would be able to do this is Glodenox :cheese:

, so you've got to ask him.

Whydidijoin · **Posted:** May 17th, 2008, 3:26 pm

There's actually a lot of stuff we can probably do. Unless Jagex blocks this in some way, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.

The problem is... as far as I know, we only have one admin with the knowledge to do such things, and Glodenox is often beyond busy.

Shadow7 · **Posted:** May 18th, 2008, 8:58 am

I will say that, if this were to be programmed in Java, for example, I know that this would be an extremely simple thing to do and could probably be thrown together in a few hours (with the exception of some grind work that would need to be done but that could be done by anyone, even with zero programming experience). I don't know if PHP is capable of doing it as easily, however.

Glodenox · **Posted:** May 18th, 2008, 12:12 pm

By matching the item ID of the Grand Exchange with the item ID our own item database, we can request the specific page. It is a lot easier in PHP than it is in Java to get the contents of a website

It's just filtering out the specific data we need that is somewhat harder if you don't know regular expressions (which sadly enough is the case for me).

- Greetz Glodenox :cheese:

Shadow7 · **Posted:** May 18th, 2008, 2:44 pm

Glodenox wrote:

By matching the item ID of the Grand Exchange with the item ID our own item database, we can request the specific page. It is a lot easier in PHP than it is in Java to get the contents of a website

It's just filtering out the specific data we need that is somewhat harder if you don't know regular expressions (which sadly enough is the case for me).

- Greetz Glodenox :cheese:

Getting the contents of a webpage is pretty easy in Java as well (which I'm sure you're aware of); it's the filtering aspect that I'm not so sure of with PHP. With Java, it's pretty easy to set up some loop and such that can filter the data; don't know how hard that is to do with PHP.

Dark Paladin · **Posted:** May 18th, 2008, 3:31 pm

Glodenox wrote:

By matching the item ID of the Grand Exchange with the item ID our own item database, we can request the specific page. It is a lot easier in PHP than it is in Java to get the contents of a website

It's just filtering out the specific data we need that is somewhat harder if you don't know regular expressions (which sadly enough is the case for me).

- Greetz Glodenox :cheese:

Do you know the Mozilla Firefox Add-On "Firebug"?
It views the page source in categories, which might help you find the specific section you desire.
I really like it, because you can view the HTML, CSS and Script content separately.
If interested you can get it from here. (though I have a feeling you have it already lol)

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