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Crawling and analyzing a file is very simple. This tutorial will take you step by step through an example to implement it. Let's get started!
First, we must decide which URL address we will crawl. This can be set in a script or passed via $QUERY_STRING. For
simplicity's sake, let's set the variable directly in the script.
$url = http://www.php.net;
?>
In the second step, we grab the specified file and pass file() The function stores it in an array.
$url = http://www.php.net;
$lines_array = file($url);
?>
Okay, There are now files in the array. However, the text we want to analyze may not all be in one line. To resolve this file, we can simply convert the array $lines_array into a string. We can use the implode(x,y) function to achieve this. If you want to use explode later (array of string variables), it may be better to set x to "|" or "!" or other similar delimiter. But for our purposes, it's best to set x to a space. y is another necessary parameter because it is the array you want to process with implode().
$url = http://www.php.net;
$lines_array = file($url);
$lines_string = implode(, $lines_array);
?>
Now that the crawling work is done, it’s time to analyze. For the purposes of this example, we want to get everything between