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Posted by Mumia W. on 07/28/06 22:57
On 07/28/2006 03:47 PM, Navodit wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a very basic question regd retrieving information
> from website using a scripting language:
>
> Basically I am working on the development of a database
> where a user enters an address (street, city, state,
> zipcode). Based on the user input of the address, I need to
> dynamically determine the latitude and longitude of that
> address from the internet. One such website was :
> http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php where we enter the
> street, city, state and zipcode etc and the webpage returns
> the latitude and longitude.
>
> I need to retrieve this information and update the database
> accordingly. My question is: Should this retrieval be done
> using Perl or Php or thru any other language ? What wd be
> the best way to incorporate this into my Java application ?
> Any help/hints wd be appreciated ! Thanks
>
>
Either PHP or Perl will do. With Perl you'll find the LWP::*
and WWW::Mechanize modules useful.
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