Re: [PHP-PEAR] libwww for PHP

[email protected] (Manuel Lemos) Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:42:41 -0300

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Hello,

Mike wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a PHP version of libwww, but before I go much further I want to make sure there isn't an existing version of the same thing. Anyone doing anything?

I suggest that you just add a C extension to W3C libwww like there is
for Perl. One of the things that W3C does and PHP lacks badly is HTML
parsing. It is silly to try doing HTML parsing in pure PHP because it is
too much CPU consuming.

libwww may be found here: http://www.w3.org/Library/

Manuel Lemos