I have searched the archives as it this question has almost assuredly been asked countless times. Unfortunately I have no idea what sort of keyword or parameter is applicable for this topic. History Here is a brief history of the problem we are trying to solve. Feel free to skip this section if you only want to see what this has to do with PHP. We need to correlate residents of our county to their local fire departments. We receive about 10 calls a day asking this very question and someone in our office has to literally pick up a map and see find where the little lines for the fire department end. The process takes about 10 minutes where it should only take seconds. We want citizens of Harris County to enter this information into our web forms instead of calling us. Our county tax auditors have already done this through a project that costed millions of taxpayers dollars. The information is protected and available under the Open Records Act of 2000. Unfortunately the Open Records Act does NOT require any government agency to provide their information in electronic form or some sort of database dump. We have requested ALL data about EVERYTHING they have concerning ANY fire department at ANY location (which is our right and privilege). The handed us a huge stack of paper (not something we can import) with a big invoice (both of which we happily declined). The county auditor's website uses ASP and MS SQL Server to allow people to enter their address and find out this information. Unfortunately the information only makes sense to people who understand the coding scheme! What this has to do with PHP Is there a way to write some sort of PHP script that accesses to the county auditors website, automatically enters the info into their form, grabs whatever information is outputted, imports the data into our SQL Server, and repeats the process for all addresses in our database? I will of course research the legality of this before we implement the script. I just wanted to know if this was even feasible before we meet about this. I don't even know where we should start. - Matthew
