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RayVega · 07-08-2008, 05:54 AM

Ok, I need some opinions. Here's what I need to do. I run a mainstream company that brokers businesses and property sales. I need to take a listing and auto-post it to about a dozen sites we have memberships with.

For example, say we were a recruiter and we wanted to post a job posting to Monster, hotjobs, careerbuilder, etc. atuomatically without my girl having to copy-paste each one. Only I need to post a business for sale listing, not a job. But same thing. I have 27 branch offices, so we post like 20-50 a day! Manual posting is just too much.

Now, the old developer wrote a program in Delphi that basically is a browser (client side)which screen scrapes and mimics key entry page by page. The problem is that it's clunky, resource intensive, and only works 1/3 of the time. It also usually buchers the posting when it fails.

Any recommendations on how to approach the problem? Server side? PHP? or just get a better Delphi programmer? Any thoughts?

07-08-2008, 05:54 AM
RayVega Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New York ICQ#348007554 Posts: 4,212	HELP! Need a genius programmer's opinion. Ok, I need some opinions. Here's what I need to do. I run a mainstream company that brokers businesses and property sales. I need to take a listing and auto-post it to about a dozen sites we have memberships with. For example, say we were a recruiter and we wanted to post a job posting to Monster, hotjobs, careerbuilder, etc. atuomatically without my girl having to copy-paste each one. Only I need to post a business for sale listing, not a job. But same thing. I have 27 branch offices, so we post like 20-50 a day! Manual posting is just too much. Now, the old developer wrote a program in Delphi that basically is a browser (client side)which screen scrapes and mimics key entry page by page. The problem is that it's clunky, resource intensive, and only works 1/3 of the time. It also usually buchers the posting when it fails. Any recommendations on how to approach the problem? Server side? PHP? or just get a better Delphi programmer? Any thoughts? __________________ Ray "The Don" Vega Managing Director Private Equity Fund [email protected]