This php mysql project is regarding a car meta search where details of new and old cars for sale needs to be spidered from external website.

We need to create the web spiders to crawl data from about 4 car auction websites. Some websites needed uis to login as a user and then crawl the required data. Some websites matching the results were done using complex regular expressions.

The project consisted of 2 type of searches background search and also instant search. The background searches will be run using cron and the instant search will be initiated by anyone searching for a particular car model.

Various specification for a car model can be given from the search form like Car Model, Series, Description, Transmission, Make, Engine , Colour , Location, Drive, URL, Fuel, Source, Price, Year, Month, Body etc.

A feature rich clients, dealers and users admin panel were created. A payment system was also created to accept online payments using credit cards.