http://www.osnews.com/story/5656/Book_Review_Spidering_Hacks Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:43:00 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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). Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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"... Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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... Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? So cool that I just bought it Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments