Open link with largest int string first

[Modernvox]

I have the following links i would like to open either all at once or one-by-one. How would i proceed?

 

<a href="/spo/1437571200.html" target="_BLANK">/spo/1437571200.html</a>

<a href="/for/1437570154.html" target="_BLANK">/for/1437570154.html</a>

<a href="/mcy/1437569678.html" target="_BLANK">/mcy/1437569678.html</a>

<a href="/cto/1437569423.html" target="_BLANK">/cto/1437569423.html</a>

 

 

I see that the numbers start from largest to smallest. Is this something i could use to open in order?

[trq]

Firstly, where are these links coming from?

 

Secondly, when you say open, what exactly do you mean? You want to make http requests for these pages? Why? They are on your site, there must be a better way.

[Modernvox]

Firstly, where are these links coming from?

 

Secondly, when you say open, what exactly do you mean? You want to make http requests for these pages? Why? They are on your site, there must be a better way.

 

Hi thorpe.

 

These links are actually on CL.

 

I would like to carry out an auto-process where i search for an item i.e, video games. Grab the results, click on each link to see if there is an email address provided. If so, copy to DB.

 

Currently i have the script working to list all the results for my keyword search, but how do i open each link  from the list to check for the email address?

 

Do I open one at a time? Do i use preg_match_all for the email?

 

My current code id as follows

 <?php  
    function curlURL($url) {  
        $curl = curl_init();  
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);  
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2');  
        $output = curl_exec($curl);  
            return $output;  
    }  
     
   $curlResults = curlURL("http://southcoast.craigslist.org/sss/");  
   $pattern = '#<a href="(/[a-z]{3}/\d{10}\.html)">#';
   preg_match_all( $pattern, $curlResults, $matches);

echo "<pre>\n";
echo "Links:\n\n";
foreach ($matches[1] as $link):
   echo "\t" . '<a href="' . $link . '" target="_BLANK">' . $link . '</a>' . "\n";
endforeach;
echo '</pre>';

?> 

[trq]

These links are actually on CL.

 

Cool, I've no idea what that means.

 

Do I open one at a time? Do i use preg_match_all for the email?

 

You can't open more than one at a time so yes. And yes, preg_match is great for matching email's within strings.