How to check a "new" entry does not exist yet ?
Posted: 2007-10-22 09:27:04
I am trying to create a new script for books from the website www.fnac.com, based on ISBN, and I wonder how I can check the ISBN that was just provided as a "new entry" is not already available in the database.
I 'd rather avoid using the script "find duplicates" afterwards.
By the way, I have two more questions :
- How does the script "find duplicates" work ? There is no loop on the records, and it seems so simple !
- How can I modify the size unit that appears on the bottom right of the screen so I can display "€" instead of "Mo" ? I found out how to switch from "o" to "Mo" or "Go" in the preference file, and I created a language file in french for books, but though I modified all the entries I could find related to size, still the size appears in bytes.
Well another question :-)
If I query alapage.com for a book from firefox, I get a beautiful page with all the data I want. The same query from AMC provides a subset of the data, as it seems to be considered as a WAP request. Does anybody know how to trick alapage.com ?
Thanks, and keep up the good work !
I 'd rather avoid using the script "find duplicates" afterwards.
By the way, I have two more questions :
- How does the script "find duplicates" work ? There is no loop on the records, and it seems so simple !
- How can I modify the size unit that appears on the bottom right of the screen so I can display "€" instead of "Mo" ? I found out how to switch from "o" to "Mo" or "Go" in the preference file, and I created a language file in french for books, but though I modified all the entries I could find related to size, still the size appears in bytes.
Well another question :-)
If I query alapage.com for a book from firefox, I get a beautiful page with all the data I want. The same query from AMC provides a subset of the data, as it seems to be considered as a WAP request. Does anybody know how to trick alapage.com ?
Thanks, and keep up the good work !