Assalamualaikum...

sorry... just want to ask one quest... i have done search engine with crawling part... but i wonder to know... how to crawl pdf files since all php scripts crawl URLs thru "href"... it just crawls html files... can someone tell me how??

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dont know .. but google can do that .. right ?

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ehehe... not just google my dear... most journals/technical papers search engine can do that... such as cora.whizbang... ncstrl... and others... pdf files or postscripts files are more useful and can be trusted than html files...=)

thehehe ... *i just know google* (because i use it ONLY)

but since php can *create* pdf file ... so i think there is a way to undo the process (haha .. what am i talking about ...). so we can read it as txt file or anything ...

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i just wonder... what do u mean by creating pdf files ?? can u show me how to do it

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http://www.php.net/pdf

there's some manual about how to create a pdf file using pdflib. I'm not sure how to crawl.. maybe one idea i have..

first u fetch the pdf file to your webserver, and then read and then get the link.. and then i think u can crawl, run, or whatever u think it's suitable

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tq 4 ur opinion and help rokawa... about fecth the pdf file... well... that's my prob!!!... how to fecth?? i have done lots of thing with the coding... changing and trial & error... but didn't work...

ok... lets me explain a bit details... when we crawl a page with default web page... we use href to get the link (URL)... grab it and keep the title, description, and URL (link) into our database... * that's spider job!!! ... when user search any term or keyword... we will give the results based on our data in the database...

so here... for spider part... i just can fecth html files with .gif... but not pdf files... i still work on it!!! ... anyway thanks again

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