basic site map builder

adunphy

I am having a heck of a time. I want to build a simple site map builder that just lists every link in my website.

I was using Snoopy but its returning abunch of arrays which is really messing things up.

So basically I need to know, is there an easy way to strip out the links on a webpage?

Tia -
Amy

vaaaska

Yes, you could strip them out with some regular expressions...

http://www.php.net/preg_replace/ <= isn't a bad place to start

Dig around...and search on the forum here...you will find exactly what you are looking for...

adunphy

sorry if this is a dumb question, but wouldn't preg_replace just search and replace the items? Would they necessarily strip out just the links for me? Or is the idea to search and replace and remove everything except the hrefs / links?

Thanks!!
Amy

vaaaska

Yep. That was just a place to begin research as you will find other useful functions as well - like preg_match. In the end you'll need something like preg_replace to strip them out. It's not very hard to do either...

leatherback

Just as a little teaser.. I wrote this as aprt of a file-management tool I created last year



function searchreq($line)   // Finds required files, on a line
  {   

    preg_match("#require\((.{0,})(\))(.{0,})#", $line, $matches); 
    $result = $matches[1]; 
    return $result;
  }

vaaaska

If all you have to deal with are <a href tags then you could just go crazy and use strip_tags.