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<h1>PHPCrawl Documentation</h1>
For PHPCrawl Version 0.7
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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PHPCrawl is a set of classes written in PHP for crawling/spidering websites, so just call it
a webcrawler-library for PHP.
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The crawler "spiders" websites and delivers information about all found pages, links, files and so on to
users of the library.
By overriding a special method of the main-class users now decide what should happen to the pages and
their content, files and other information the crawler finds.
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PHPCrawl povides a lot of options to specify the behaviour of the crawler like URL- and Content-Type-filters,
cookie-handling, limiter-options and much more.
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
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<li>PHP 4.0.4 or later version with sockets enabled</li>
<li>PCRE library package
(Perl-Compatible Regular Expression, already bundeled with PHP >= 4.2.0, see "requirements" and "installation" in the php-manual)</li>
<li>PHP with OpenSSL-support for SSL-connections (https). Not necessary for http-connects.</li>
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License: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL (GNU General Public License)</a><br>
Author: Uwe Hunfeld, phpcrawl | at | cuab.de
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