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Create a PHP API and Visual Basic App to Use It

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Introduction: This tutorial we will be creating a simple PHP API for a website. This is useful for if you have a website which you want users to be able to interact with in third party programs seamlessly. Our API will only write a file and check if it already exists, you can make yours write to a database etc. Steps of Creation: PHP API Step 1: First we are going to create our PHP API and once that is finished we will create a simple Visual Basic application to use the API.

Visual Basic Webpage Scraper

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Introduction: In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a webpage scraper in Visual Basic. This can be used to gather information from certain websites through an automated process. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First we want to create a form with a simple button (set the name to scrapeButton), a Text Box (set the name to linkURL), a Rich Text Box (set the name to srcBox) and a Web Browser (set the name to srcBrowser).