jamesbrauman Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hey all, brace yourselfs, this is going to be somewhat a long post.... I'm not sure if this is possible in php or not, but I thought I would at least try as PHP is the only scripting language I am somewhat comfortable with with the exception of HTML, CSS. There is a website, http://www.ahajokes.com/, which contains an archive of funny jokes. Each of these jokes is stored on a different page. What I am attempting to do, through PHP, is navigate to each of those pages, save the joke to my database, and move on to the next. There will be quite a couple of steps involved, I believe. First of all, we need to open the web source for the index page of http://www.ahajokes.com/. The source for this page is here: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Aha! 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<table border=0 width="98%"> <tr> <td><li><a href="http://www.asianjoke.com/" target="_blank">Asian Joke</a></td> <td><li><a href="http://www.getfunnypictures.com/" target="_blank">Funny Pictures</a></td> <td><li><a href="http://www.wowfunny.com/" target="_blank">Wow Funny</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><li><a href="http://www.veryfunnyvideos.com/" target="_blank">Funny Videos</a></td> <td><li><a href="http://www.randomlaughs.com/" target="_blank">Random Jokes</a></td> <td><li><a href="http://www.jokeswarehouse.com/" target="_blank">Jokes Warehouse</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><li><a href="http://www.funny-spot.com/" target="_blank">Funny Spot</a></td> <td><li><a href="http://www.lifeisajoke.com/" target="_blank">Life is a Joke</a></td> <td><li><a href="http://www.spicyjoke.com/" target="_blank">Spicy Joke</a></td> </tr> </table><br> </td></tr></table></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#000000" colspan=2><img src="g/clr.gif" height=1 width=600 alt=""></td></tr> <tr><td valign=bottom align=left><img 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Reproduction of this site in part or whole is strictly prohibited. Use subject to <a href="terms.html">terms</a>. [ <a href="corporate.html">Corporate Center<a> | <a href="tell.html">Tell a Friend About Our Site</a> | <a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a> ]</FONT></SMALL></td></tr> </table> </body></html> The part I have highlighted bold is what I am interested in, as this part contains the hyperlinks to a list of jokes for each category. I need to obtain the href of each of those links in the table, and save them for later use, preferably saving them to an array. The next step in this somewhat complex idea is to visit each of those pages, obtain the link to each joke on that page, and save it in an array for later use. I will be using a while loop for this (while we are not at the end of the links, save each link).The source to each of those pages (I just picked the first one) is this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Animal Jokes, Pet Jokes, Creature Jokes, and More!</title> <meta name="description" content="Animal Jokes, pet jokes, and creature jokes about wildlife, dogs, cats, and much more!"> <meta name="keywords" content="Animal Jokes,pets,creatures,dogs,cats,mice,tigers,chickens,frogs,birds"> </head> <body text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#0000FF" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <!-- Animal Jokes --> <table border=0 bgcolor="#000000" align=center width=600><tr><td> <table align=center bgcolor="#000000" border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=3 width=600> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFAA"> <td width=123 valign=top><br><br><br><br><img src="g/brief2.gif" width=117 height=64 alt="Animal Jokes"></td> <td bgcolor="#D3D3D3"><center><font face="times new roman,helvetica"><h1>Animal Jokes<hr size=1></h1></center>Animal Jokes and humor about pets, creatures, dogs, cats, mice, frogs, tigers, wildlife, and much more! For more animal jokes, also check out the <a href="http://www.ahajokes.com/animal_jokes_for_kids.html">animal jokes for kids</a> section of Aha! 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Reproduction of this site in part or whole is strictly prohibited. Use subject to <a href="terms.html">terms</a>.<br>[ <b><a href="http://www.ahajokes.com/">Jokes</a></b> | <a href="corporate.html">Corporate Center<a> | <a href="http://www.getfunnypictures.com/" target="_blank">Funny Pictures</a> ]</FONT></SMALL></td></tr> </table> </body></html> Again, the part which I have highlighted in that page source is what I am interested in. It is a table with links leading to each joke page. I need to obtain the href adress for each of these pages and save them to an array for later use. Then continue with the aforementioned loop until we have an array of an address to every page. After those two steps I think I could figure the last step out on my own. If anyone could point me in the right direction for starting on this project (or even tell me if is possible) it would be greatly appreciated. My concern is: -Once I have the websource in a string, I know I could save every href address in that table. My question is, how do I find that table, how do I know it is the right table at all (It could be a different one!) Also if anyone could point me in the direction for obtaining the page source for a link on the internet to a string using php, it would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou for reading!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrus Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I know this sounds silly and I don't mean this as a smart remark, but why not just ask for the jokes? I had a challenge like this once and the solution was simply to ask for the database. It looks almost like everything has an html page, but that can be deceiving sometimes. Not totally sure on the answer to your question other than some pain. I wish you luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That is a good idea, but take a look at: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-get-contents.php I am not too sure what other functions you need, but that is a good start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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