Re: [PHP-PEAR] libwww for PHP

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Manuel Lemos wrote:

> 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
> 

	For HTML parsing, can't you just use Expat?

	-Sterling