[PHP] Re: got some advice.... need to know the lingo
Ben Turner wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on converting a site from ASP to PHP and I was wondering if their where any built in functions to perform screen scraping. In ASP, the XML DOM is most commonly used to accomplish this. I am thinking that there should be something to get the task done in PHP but I cant even find the correct keywords to use to search for anything like this. Anyone got some advice on what to search by or maybe a link to get some more information?? Thanks! Ben The XML DOM stuff isn't as mature in PHP yet, last I checked (unfortunate, because we were hoping it would have been at that point). How complex are you trying to get? Could you explain the goal a bit more? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: got some advice.... need to know the lingo
Ben Turner wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on converting a site from ASP to PHP and I was wondering if their where any built in functions to perform screen scraping. In ASP, the XML DOM is most commonly used to accomplish this. I am thinking that there should be something to get the task done in PHP but I cant even find the correct keywords to use to search for anything like this. Anyone got some advice on what to search by or maybe a link to get some more information?? http://www.carrubbers.org/scripts/php/xpath/ That might be of use to you. Doesn't require any libraries, and seems a bit more documented than most other packages. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: got some advice.... need to know the lingo
Well not so much processing XML but rather grabbing HTML input and parsing it for certain values. I use this approach very heavily for inputing a DB table with information that needs to be displayed back to the web users. Ben - Original Message - From: Michael Kimsal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: got some advice need to know the lingo Ben Turner wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on converting a site from ASP to PHP and I was wondering if their where any built in functions to perform screen scraping. In ASP, the XML DOM is most commonly used to accomplish this. I am thinking that there should be something to get the task done in PHP but I cant even find the correct keywords to use to search for anything like this. Anyone got some advice on what to search by or maybe a link to get some more information?? http://www.carrubbers.org/scripts/php/xpath/ That might be of use to you. Doesn't require any libraries, and seems a bit more documented than most other packages. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
