Reading pages for urls...

[NewT]

I'm trying to write a script that will read a webpage and find links that have certain words in them. Since I am relatively new to php, I don't know what functions to use to accomplish this.

if I was to look for the word dog, I would want it to find something like this: <a href="something.htm">dog</a>

Would this be fairly easy? Any pointers in the right direction would be helpful (i.e. functions, links, etc.)

Thanks for your help 😃

[superwormy]

You could use either regular expressions:

www.php.net/eregi
www.php.net/preg_match

Or some funky string matching ( find </a> or <a )

www.php.net/stristr
www.php.net/str_replace
www.php.net/substr
www.php.net/strstr