Re: libwww for PHP
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: libwww for PHP | ||
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Mike wrote:
> >
> > I'm writing a PHP version of libwww, but before I go much further I want to make sure
> > there isn't an existing version of the same thing. Anyone doing anything?
>
> I suggest that you just add a C extension to W3C libwww like there is
> for Perl. One of the things that W3C does and PHP lacks badly is HTML
> parsing. It is silly to try doing HTML parsing in pure PHP because it is
> too much CPU consuming.
>
> libwww may be found here: http://www.w3.org/Library/
>
> Manuel Lemos
>
For HTML parsing, can't you just use Expat?
-Sterling