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

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:40:20 +0000

Well cURL is indeed also required for this method, just that you say there is an easier way if you have cURL installed. you have if this is working for you.

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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