Analysing page content

[Dave]

Hi All,
I'd like to be able to request a page from a server and then be able to
analyse the content (rather than rendering it to the screen of my browser)
in php. I guess this is a bit like how a robot works. I've got quite a lot
of php knowledge already, but I can't think of how to do this.

Has anybody any ideas on the types of functions or mechnisms I should be
using for this?.

Thanks in advance,
Dave

[adlerweb]

Re: Analysing page content

Dave schrieb:

I'd like to be able to request a page from a server and then be able to
analyse the content (rather than rendering it to the screen of my browser)
in php. I guess this is a bit like how a robot works. I've got quite a lot
of php knowledge already, but I can't think of how to do this.

Well. fsockopen/fwrite/fget or Curl for your connection and then regex
should help to get the content into a usable form.

[Krustov]

Re: Analysing page content

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<Dave>
<Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:13:06 -0000>
<456457ef$1_1@g lkas0286.greenl nk.net>

I'd like to be able to request a page from a server and then be able to
analyse the content (rather than rendering it to the screen of my browser)
in php. I guess this is a bit like how a robot works. I've got quite a lot
of php knowledge already, but I can't think of how to do this.
>
Has anybody any ideas on the types of functions or mechnisms I should be
using for this?.
>

<?php

$ganja="http://www.yourdomain. com";

$handle=fopen($ ganja,"rb"); $contents='';
while (!feof($handle) ) {$contents .= fread($handle,8 192);}
fclose($handle) ;

$whatever=strip _tags($contents );

$filename="stor e/demo.php";
$fp=fopen($file name,"w"); fwrite ($fp,$whatever) ; fwrite ($fp,"\n");
fclose($fp);

?>

The above will grab the webpage and strip the html tags before saving it
as a text file .