scan all links

[mcshen]

is it possible to use php to scan all links? like, if i enter yahoo.com/index.html, it will output all links from yahoo.com/index.html

also, i remember reading this tutorial. but i forgot where it is now.
that tutorial tells us how to get some specific value(stock quote) from a website and outputs it in ur own website.

please help. thx.

[WinterDragon]

I'll try tonight... I think I know how to do it actually... hrm, lets see.

[Daggeth]

You would first read the file using fopen() and fread() and put it in a string.

Then you would use eregi(); and explode(); to find out all the <href="link.htm">some value</a>

Then you would further strip out everything else and get the link...

Im not going to write the script. I am too tired. I hope this helps though.

and this process is call WEB SPIDERING 🙂

[mcshen]

i used preg_match

man, that's the hardway, i think