finding a link within a webpage?

[merylvingien]

Hi fellers, i posted a question some time ago, but never got round to following it up as i was busy with other things.

 

I take it that php can search a page and see if a link is contained within the said page?

 

I have this basic code

 

<?php

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.somesite.com/');
$link = 'www.mysite.com'


$pos = strpos($homepage, $link);
if ($pos === false) {
    echo "The string '$link' was not found in the page";
} else {
    echo "The string '$link' was found in the page";
}

?>

 

I am getting an error with $pos = strpos($homepage, $link); line: unexpected T_VARIABLE

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated 

[simshaun]

You are missing a semicolon to end

$link = 'www.mysite.com'

[merylvingien]

Doh!

 

Cheers