Jerry Yurow asks:
I am a rank beginner in PHP scripting. I want to build a web crawler that will find each internal link on a given website and place its information into an XML file. I want to capture each link’s name and its URL reference.
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Hi Jerry,
No. I will not write the code for you, however James Bruce wrote an excellent article on building a PHP web crawler (part 2). I’ve included a list of PHP learning resources below. If I were you, I would start a little simpler. There are plenty of open source web crawlers of which you may ‘borrow’ the source from.
PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner
W3Schools – PHP Tutorial
Tizag – PHP Tutorial
PHPBuddy – PHP Tutorial
LearnPHP – PHP Tutorial
Quackit – PHP Tutorial
KillerPHP (non-free)
Lynda.com – PHP Tutorials (non-free)
VTC.com – PHP Programming: The Basics Tutorials (non-free)
VTC.com – Real World Programming With PHP 5 Tutorials (non-free)
VTC.com – PHP Tutorial (non-free)
- Jeff