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 htmlSQL - Version 0.5

-=====================
-
-htmlSQL is a experimental PHP library which allows you to access HTML

-values by an SQL like syntax. This means that you don't have to write

-complex functions or regular expressions to extract specific values.
+=====================

+

+htmlSQL is an experimental PHP library that allows you to access HTML values by an SQL like syntax. 

+This means that you don't have to write complex functions or regular expressions to extract specific values.

 

 **htmlSQL queries look like this:**

 

@@ -15,59 +14,57 @@ complex functions or regular expressions to extract specific values.
 

 This query should return an array with all links that contain the attribute `class="list"`.

 

-
-The project has been abandoned
-------------------------------
-
-htmlSQL was a experiment I made in 2006. I'm **not** supporting or extending the library anymore, this repository is only for historical purposes.
-But feel free to fork, modify and study the source code. If you need a reliable library for data scraping I recommend using **other modules**.
-
-
-Related projects:
-
-* PHP: [phpQuery](http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/), [SimpleXML](http://www.php.net/simplexml), [DOM](http://www.php.net/dom)
-* Perl: [WWW::Mechanize](http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/), [pQuery](http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/pQuery-0.07/lib/pQuery.pm)
-* Python: [Scrapy](http://scrapy.org/), [Beautiful Soup](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
-* JavaScript: [node.js](http://blog.nodejitsu.com/jsdom-jquery-in-5-lines-on-nodejs)
-* .NET: [Html Agility Pack](http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/)
-
-Related links:
-
-* [Stack Overflow: Options for HTML scraping?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2861/options-for-html-scraping)
-* [Stack Overflow: HTML Scraping in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34120/html-scraping-in-php)
-* [Hacker News: PHP class to query the web by an SQL like language](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097008)
-* [Hacker News: Ask YC: What do you scrape? How do you scrape?](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159025)
-

-
-Requirements
-------------
-
-- Any flavor of PHP4+ should do
-- [Snoopy PHP class - Version 1.2.3](http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) (optional - required for web transfers)  
+

+Project Discontinued

+--------------------

+

+HtmlSQL was an experiment I did in 2006. I'm not supporting or extending the library anymore this repository is only for historical purposes. But feel free to fork, modify and study the source code. If you need a reliable library for data scraping I recommend using other modules.

+

+Related projects:

+

+* PHP: [phpQuery](http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/), [SimpleXML](http://www.php.net/simplexml), [DOM](http://www.php.net/dom)

+* Perl: [WWW::Mechanize](http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/), [pQuery](http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/pQuery-0.07/lib/pQuery.pm)

+* Python: [Scrapy](http://scrapy.org/), [Beautiful Soup](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)

+* JavaScript: [node.js](http://blog.nodejitsu.com/jsdom-jquery-in-5-lines-on-nodejs)

+* .NET: [Html Agility Pack](http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/)

+

+Related links:

+

+* [Stack Overflow: Options for HTML scraping?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2861/options-for-html-scraping)

+* [Stack Overflow: HTML Scraping in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34120/html-scraping-in-php)

+* [Hacker News: PHP class to query the web by an SQL like language](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097008)

+* [Hacker News: Ask YC: What do you scrape? How do you scrape?](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159025)

+

+

+Requirements

+------------

+

+- Any flavor of PHP4+ should do

+- [Snoopy PHP class - Version 1.2.3](http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) (optional - required for web transfers)  

   You find all Snoopy related documents (copyright, readme, etc) in the snoopy_data/ subdirectory.

-
+

 

 Usage

------
+-----

 

 Just include the "snoopy.class.php" and the "htmlsql.class.php" files

-into your PHP scripts and look at the examples to get an idea of how 
+into your PHP scripts and look at the examples to get an idea of how 

 to use the htmlSQL library. It should be very simple :-)

 

 

 Background / idea

------------------
+-----------------

 

 I had this idea while extracting some data from a website. As I realized

 that the algorithms and functions to extract links and other tags are

-often the same - I had the idea to combine all functions to an universal

+often the same - I had the idea to combine all functions into a universal

 usable library. While drinking a coffee and thinking about that, I

 thought it would be cool to access HTML elements by using SQL. So I

 started creating this library...

 

 

 Warning

--------
+-------

 

 The `eval()` function is used for the WHERE statement. Make sure that all

 user data is checked and filtered against malicious PHP code.

@@ -75,23 +72,23 @@ Never trust any user input!
 

 

 Todo

-----
+----

 

 * Enhance the HTML parser

 * Test htmlSQL with invalid and bad HTML files

 * Replace the ugly `eval()` method for the WHERE statement with an own method

-* Add more error checks
+* Add more error checks

 * Add unit tests

 * Add a LIMIT function like in SQL

 

-
-Author
-------
-

-* [Jonas John](http://www.jonasjohn.de/)
-
-
-License
--------
-
-htmlSQL uses a modified BSD license, you find the full license text in the "htmlsql.class.php".
+

+Author

+------

+

+* [Jonas John](http://www.jonasjohn.de/)

+

+

+License

+-------

+

+htmlSQL uses a modified BSD license, you find the full license text in the "htmlsql.class.php".