Parsing and sending text separately to another file

[1bigbear]

Hi

 

I have a file that contains a list of links in text, like this

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/11

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/1555

without the x

 

The page source code looks like this

<link>http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/11</link><br/>

<link>http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/1</link><br/>

 

I want to parse the text and send each link to another script, but I don't know how to do this, could you help me.

 

 

 

[cags]

If the file your reading looks like this...

 

<link>http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/11</link><br/>

<link>http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/1</link><br/>

 

... then you could use something like...

 

$input = file_get_contents($path);
preg_match_all("~<link>(.*)?</link>~", $input, $output);
// the links you then want are stored in $output[1] as an array.

[1bigbear]

If I ad echo $output[1]; to show what did he get

$input = file_get_contents($path);
preg_match_all("~<link>(.*)?</link>~", $input, $output);
// the links you then want are stored in $output[1] as an array.
echo $output[1];

 

I get this result

 

Array

[cags]

Yes, you would, as I said...

 

// the links you then want are stored in $output[1] as an array.

 

print_r($output[1]);

[1bigbear]

I cant get it to work now it show

 

Array ( )

[1bigbear]

It work, it didn't work with a php file but with a html file it work, it show before the first link this Array ( [0] =>

[1bigbear]

the links are stored in one array, if I send them to a database will they get put together or each link will get a separate place. I want to compare the links to other from the database

[cags]

So loop through the array...

 

foreach($output[1] as $URL) {
   // whatever you wish to do here.
}

[1bigbear]

I have a script that searches for the link in a db but I don't know how to send each link from this script to the one that searches. Any ideas?

[cags]

No, I don't understand what your asking. Why is the search in a seperate script to where you need it, why not just put it in the same script. If there is a reason for it to be in a seperate script then you will need to use either $_SESSION variables to pass information between scripts or depending on the nature of teh scripts use the include function to bring the other scripts functions into scope.

[1bigbear]

I can put them together but how do I make the search script to take each link and search?

[cags]

Er..

 

So loop through the array...

 

foreach($output[1] as $URL) {
   // whatever you wish to do here.
}

 

Just place your search code in place of the //whatever you wish to do here