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1. Kyle Mathews

   another request for the lazy web -- anyone know an equivalent of the Python library "Beautiful Soup" for PHP? Would be lovely. . .

   Tuesday, 29-Jul-08 22:27:03 UTC from web
   • Rob Loach

     @kylemathews PHP5 comes with SimpleXML.... http://php.net/simplexml

     Tuesday, 29-Jul-08 22:28:29 UTC
   • Kyle Mathews Rob Loach

     @robloach true but Beautiful Soup is a pre-built screen scraping tool whereas SimpleXML requires more work and isn't as robust.

     Tuesday, 29-Jul-08 22:39:43 UTC
   • Rob Loach

     @kylemathews This is what I meant: http://drupalbin.com/2665

     Tuesday, 29-Jul-08 22:56:36 UTC
   • Kyle Mathews Rob Loach

     @robloach thanks, I'll check out your function. I haven't used simplexml so am a bit leary. Beautiful Soup just works for content scrapping.

     Tuesday, 29-Jul-08 23:05:47 UTC
   • Kyle Mathews Rob Loach

     @robloach so was hoping for something as easy as that. . . Thanks for your help!

     Tuesday, 29-Jul-08 23:06:21 UTC
   • Alex McFadyen Rob Loach

     @robloach here is the solution we came up with to the #drupal OG groups problem http://drupal.org/node/289003

     Wednesday, 30-Jul-08 12:20:57 UTC