Restructuring the Project

Initially our group had a great project structure layout. It was very clean Client to PHP to Google Databases sort of map. Unfortunately, at some point, we found out that Google stopped giving out SOAP keys last year, this meant, that we were stuck using the Google Search AJAX API, which is a little odd because this meant, we had to sort of pull the information in a roundabout way, with the Client side getting the information, sending it to our code that would process it, look it up or store it in our databases and then return the output back the Client side.

It will work, it's just that, it's a kind of odd way of delivering information. We seem to be running into quite a number of unmovable brick walls as we further research the things we need for this project. Initially, we didn't actually want to create a database since using Google could have worked, but now since there is no SOAP key, we definitely have to make a database. In addition. We're coming across the problem where Google barely has any of the times for most stores and it's almost impossible to extract that time and we can't screen scrape because Google will definitely notice that kind of activity and then shut us down. I really hope this is the end of the major bumps...