On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <m...@pooteeweet.org>wrote:
> > On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:06 , gunnarlium wrote: > > > I've tried to use to DomCrawler as web scraper, but find it somewhat > confusing and unintuitive. I believe this might just as well be me > misunderstanding it's intended use. > > > > Anyway, is the DomCrawler mostly intended for functional testing, or is > it meant to be more full fledged "web browser" (or web page reader). I > especially find it hard to extract either the whole document or the > html/xml-representation of a node. I believe it would be quite easy to add > this functionality (and I would be happy to do it), but I wonder if this > within the intended scope of the DomCrawler Component. > > > > The README.md and docs suggests that the DomCrawler is kind of jQuery > for PHP. However, it currently lacks of lot functionality to achieve this > goal. I would be happy to take a look and add functionality to make it more > powerful. > > i havent used it alot .. but it seems to be used by > https://github.com/fabpot/Goutte for this purpose > > > PS.: As someone who does not follow all the discussions and commits (or > barely any), I find it hard to find out the intention behind certain > components, and what's the roadmap/planned/wanted feature set of each. Is > the dev-mailing list the place to go for this kind of info? > > the intention should in theory be cleared up by the README and docs .. if > there is room for improvement then its good you open a discussion here to > clarify things and then send a PR to improve things. as for roadmap .. > indeed this is fairly hard to see right now .. as a matter of fact aside > from open tickets I fear often future plans are only "maintained" inside > the heads of certain developers .. so yeah it would be good if those > developers would try and open tickets to let others participate in the > process. > > OK, thanks. I've opened an issue regarding docs ( https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/3567). As I don't know what the docs should say, I'm not quite ready to make a pull request, but I will try to follow this up. -gunnar > regrads, > Lukas Kahwe Smith > m...@pooteeweet.org > > > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-devs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-devs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en > -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-devs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-devs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
