Comments on: Coding an Armory Crawler in PHP - basic HOWTO

By: Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday | Altitis

Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday | Altitis — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:27:14 +0000

[...] Some people are apparently still interested in my clumsy attempts to write my own armory crawler in php. [...]

By: mark

mark — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:33:46 +0000

Gwaenda, stop saying you lack understanding dude, I have a php professor that explains stuff in a way that makes it seem like everything is a piece of cake so when I read any manual for 30 minutes and still I don’t have a clue what it is all about I know it isn’t my fault! lol.

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:33:00 +0000

Just to demonstrate my complete lack of culture and understanding, I’ve visited PEAR, read a lot of the manual, and still couldn’t get a clue what the package is good for, and more importantly, how I could leverage it for my own needs.

It appears to my totally novice eye that it provides different means of doing what I used cURL and SimpleXML for? What did I miss here?

By: Geekster

Geekster — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:25:00 +0000

This was very helpful. To repay you I’ll have to recommend you use PEAR with XML Parser, because it’s pretty ez stuff.

http://pear.php.net/

Search on XML and you’ll find the parser. There are examples in there… You will also need to download the PEAR base module (pear.php)… it’s the #1 download on the main page…

My idea was to collect data and output to a file locally that can be parsed. This works better than trying to parse directly because you control the data in a static form.

By: Tiggr

Tiggr — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:07:00 +0000

Hey. Thank you sooooo much for putting this up. I had been struggling with this for the last 2 nights. I was really confused by the fact I saw xml in the source but my page got different results.

Thank You, Thank you, Thank you

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:05:00 +0000

Belated reply due to RL absence, but as I mentionned in my post, using ini_set followed by fopen($armoryurl) and file_get_contents does the trick too - it’s a more brutish approach though.

By: dj

dj — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:40:00 +0000

Ohh, you find this is the code
$xml = xml2ary($data);

Its just me parsing it within the function. want to output an array instead of XML

By: dj

dj — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:37:00 +0000

Its an easy way, yes.
But it requires that you server is compiled with cURL.

Trolling some forums and php.net and found a pure PHP way:

pasted the code here so its easy to see:
http://www.htmlsidan.se/code/?id=1237

Then you just parse it with an XML function/parser