Build a PHP Link Scraper with cURL
Use cURL and PHP to build a robot that scrapes links from web pages and dumps them in a database. Just use it responsibly.
Marc Plotz is a Senior Web Developer for a major South African web development company and regularly writes articles on various topics for online web development article publishers. He specializes in the development of enterprise-class web applications and rapid application development frameworks. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa, with his wife and two children.
Use cURL and PHP to build a robot that scrapes links from web pages and dumps them in a database. Just use it responsibly.
By focusing on stability and security, the PHP team has introduced more than 100 bug fixes and tweaks to the overall framework in version 5.3.1.
In the last part of Marc's series we put all the pieces together and write a simple Hello World Application.
Marc Plotz takes us further into his custom, lightweight MVC Framework.
In part one of our series Marc Plotz lays down the groundwork for our own MVC Framework.