read file, count words???

[jamiewebmouse]

Help me somebody, please!
I need to write a PHPscript that opens a url/page, counts the words in it and then tells me which are the most used words.

How can I do this???

I looked for the function "open()", but I don't seem to find it. Or I don't know where and how to look...

Help me please, I'm a newbie!

Thanks a lot.

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read about fopen(), striptags() , explode() and count()

[whizkid]

Hi,

Try this:

$url = "http://www.test.com/";

$a = strip_tags(join('',file($url)));
$a = eregi_replace(".|,|\?|!", "", $a);
$a = eregi_replace(" {2,99}", " ", $a);

$trans = array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES));
$a = strtr ($a, $trans);

$b = explode(" ", $a);
$num_words = count($b); //The number of words in $url
$words = array_count_values($b);
reset($words);
arsort($words); //$words is an array that has all the words in the document ordered by how often they occur

print_r($words);

firemouse2001