parsing URL

articles about parsing URL

[cody7]

What are the sites that you can recommend that talk about parsing URL, because i want to extract information on a website dynamically w/o doing the copy paste thing.

Thank you in advance...

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld cody7,

what are you looking for specifically? I am sure we can help you out.

Is it just the url you want to parse?
do you want to dynamically server data based on the strings in the url?
or do you want to parse/process pages on another site?

[cody7]

for example a website contains many 3 drop down menu

[1]
<select>
<option value='1'>
<option value='2'>
...
<option value='100000'>
</select>
[2]
<select>
<option value='1'>
<option value='2'>
...
<option value='100000'>
</select>
[3]
<select>
<option value='1'>
<option value='2'>
...
<option value='100000'>
</select>

instead of copy paste all of them to extract all value attributes i want to parse the whole content of the site to extract them Dynamically.

I'm not only after the drop down menus but i want to learn the concept of parsing thru URL contents, so if ever i want to extract something or some words in a site i can extract them with ease.

so i'm looking for a site to teach me how to do this.

thanks for your reply...

[cody7]

i'm a PHP user so i'm searching for articles or tutorials about this topic.

Thanks