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WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:09 pm
by Face
WEB SITE CLONING
I wanna know about WEB SITE CLONING.
There are so many projects about web cloning.I don't know many things about it.I can think from the name "cloning" is to get a copy from one web & make little changes according to some one's ideas.(I don't think it is good thing.)
But It is nice to learn & to get freelance projects.
Can I know About the basics?
Is there any software to use?(I use ADOBE DREAM VIEWER to edit HTML.Can I use it)
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:14 pm
by Nipuna
I've seen that Too.
So I found on Net. Then I saw a YouTube Video, On it it said download the whole page with IDM(Internet Download Manager)
But I think this is not what exactly Buyers Want.
so I want to know about this too.
According to my Thought, I think Web Site Cloning is
Make a Exact site to another with Joomla or What Ever.
Thanks
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:31 pm
by Neo
Nipuna has some close idea in that. Basically website cloning is about re-creating the same thing mostly from scratch (from the beginning). At the end of development it should function almost same as the original site. The main concern is the functionality, not the look.
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:23 pm
by Nipuna
So Neo, how to Make sites like that. Without knowing from what it was made of?
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:55 pm
by Neo
After you become an expert, when see the pages, you will understand how it can be done with your favourite language (in my case php). It can be ASP.Net, Java or anything. The requirement is, the functionality should be close enough to the original site.
To become an expert, you will have to use your knowledge as much as possible. That means do more coding.
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:14 pm
by Face
OK.It is hard thing to learn language to clone a web.
If I can get it like a template,I can do some changes by HTML editor.Like frontpage or DREAMVIEWER.
I tried by copy pasting the source code.
Got the code,pasted in a text editor.(NOTEPAD)saved it with the extension .html
Then I tried to edit that saved page with DREAMVIWER.But I is not proper.No colors,No thing looks like the main site.
Please give me tip.
Many times people need to clone WORDPRESS site.
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:23 pm
by Nipuna
for that you have to make a WordPress account and then try. But I am no thinking just copy pasting course will work. You have to manually edit things in wordpress.
Ask Neo He will tell more
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:36 am
by Neo
Yes, just copy/pasting won't work at all. Basically for server side executed parts like php, etc...
I'll give you an example. Say you have a page as below. Save this as mypage.php
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<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Some text here ..... 1 <br><br>
<?php
$a = 10;
$b = 15;
echo "a + b is " . ($a+$b) . "<br><br><br>";
?>
Some text here ..... 2
</body>
</html>
If you copy this page to your webserver root (if it is WAMP, C:/WAMP/WWW/), call it in a browser (If you are using WAMP,
http://localhost/mypage.html) and you will see the answer as 25.
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Some text here ..... 1
a + b is 25
Some text here ..... 2
Get page source and you will see following code.
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<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Some text here ..... 1 <br><br>
a + b is 25<br><br><br>
Some text here ..... 2
</body>
</html>
Now, where is the part which is enclosed with <?php and ?>?
That php code was executed on the server and you only got the output of it.
I'm sure now you know why simple copy/paste won't work here. However when you see the page source of the output, you must be able to think how it was created and make a page close to the original code.
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:46 pm
by Face
Ah NEO,I got it.The main Idea I got is"learn well,Because simple methods like copy/past can be done by any one.No one will pay for you that."right.
I am bidding just for fun.Not for full time work.I am targeting to learn something more.(I feel that I am not good in IT some times.But I love it,That's why I am following it.)
I will give a rest to this topic.I will start this in near future.
Re: WEB SITE CLONING
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:03 pm
by Neo
PHP is easy to learn and very interesting to work with. There are some tutorials in ROBOT.LK. If you learn PHP (with mysql database), HTML, CSS and some JavaScript (You don't have to learn everything at ones), there will be 1000s of opportunities for you to bid. I'm sure you can do it.