On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 18:32, Sandro Tosi<mo...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 18:20, Sean Coates<s...@caedmon.net> wrote: >>> so what i'm wondering is: is there an easily parseable or structured >>> interface (xmlrpc, soap, read-only JSON export, whatever) to the php.net >>> bts >>> that could be used to get a bug's information? or would such a bts-link >>> service need to resort to scraping the page for a particular bug's status? >> >> Not sure if this really helps you (and I agree that the bug system really >> needs some sort of better programmatic interface), but you can translate >> most bugs.php.net pages into rss (which is easier to parse than HTML... >> usually (-: ) by prepending rss/ to the URL. This useful for reading. >> >> For example: >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46944 >> becomes: >> http://bugs.php.net/rss/bug.php?id=46944 > > yeah, I'll probably follow this way, but using the format=xml parameter: > > http://bugs.php.net/rss/bug.php?format=xml&id=46944 > > that seems better for programmatical parsing.
FYI: I've implemented the parsing using the rss xml ouput. In case some development is done on this side, please keep me in the loop :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
