Orientation needed in php, parsing text, file get contents and curl
<p>I'm very very bad at PHP programming, I can edit wordpress templates and some zencart templates and thats all,</p>

<p>I'm in need of some serious development and I want to learn to do it,</p>

<p>I need your guidance on what to read/eBooks that will allow me to perform such an app at the end, please tell me books that tackle in extend these requirements but start for beginners,</p>

<p>What I need to build is,</p>

<ol>
<li>Scrape the results of a search query in some site/search engine.</li>
<li>Save the results (which will be pages/articles) into a database or text files.</li>
<li>Create a simple interface to manage those saved results and to modify them, this step is key, I'm looking for automation, like, having a set of keyword that runs trough those results and for instance, whenever the keyword is found, turn the entire line into bold, or into a heading tag, and then re-save it HTML formated.</li>
<li>Use <code>file_get_contents</code> or curl to translate the results into another language with bing api.</li>
<li>automatically schedule the final results (cron job maybe) to be sent trough email or added to an RSS feed (some XML tampering here)</li>
</ol>

<p>I would like to be able to build such an App in less then 3 months, I can dedicate 3 to 4 hours per day to study PHP in extent,</p>

<p>Where should I start, what competences should I have to be able to build such an App?</p>

<p>Best Regards</p>
