Codeigniter Price Comparison Site

[eluser]coxdabd[/eluser]
Hi all, need a little bit of a steer on the best approach to this.

What do I want to do?: Create a price-comparison website for digital cameras.

Problem: Best approach to tackle this. Problem isn't displaying info, the problem is getting the info into my database.

I've seen the SimpleDomHelper which should help scrape the price from various websites. But different sites will need scraping differently due to the HTML layout differences. I was going to store a link to the product page in my database and the HTML element which I need to scrape from and run through this but unsure if this is the best way...

Any help and pointers would be massively appreciated. Tried to make it as simple as possible.

[eluser]coxdabd[/eluser]
Any ideas? Surely this isn't a biggie for the Codeigniter Pro's out there?

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
Something for you to aspire to: http://pricespy.co.nz

[eluser]coxdabd[/eluser]
Hi, thanks for the link, makes interesting browsing - any thoughts on my question?

[eluser]coxdabd[/eluser]
No one can offer any design advice?

[eluser]aprium[/eluser]
I would write a web spider which runs on a cron using CI command line feature. You would need a different scrapping routine for each site you wanted prices from.