"Spidering Hacks" by O'Reilly is targeted at everyone who wants to automate surfing the web and has a little bit of programming experience. Though each of the hacks in the book covers a particular topic, similar to books in the Cookbook series, there is also a lot of material that is generally applicable in each of them.
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Too bad it's in perl, php would be more usefull for me as it's what im working woth at the moment. I kind of dislike the cookbook (the php one), i remember i had a hard time finding about string concatenation the first time i used it, had to use google to find out that it's with a "." instead of the "+" (i come from a c/c++ backgroung :-P).
PHP isn't such a good GLUE. To spider something like Perl will act a lot better. If you really want something cool, a threaded Python script would be the way to go. Python has an AIM module to facilitate the aimbot functions of this as well. PHP is a great web development system, but isn't really designed as well to be used as a GLUE.
I was interested in hack #35 ("gathering movies from the Library of Congress" as noted by an amazon.com reviewer), but strange enough, the source code archive downloaded from oreilly.com doesn't contain any code for this particular "hack"...
PHP isn't such a good GLUE. To spider something like Perl will act a lot better.
Yes, tell that to my boss. If they say php then php it is...
