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generating a diagram - flowchart of a website

Discuss generating a diagram - flowchart of a website


Posted by: Larry

Does anyone of a program or tool that will automatically generate or create a chart of a website?

Something that will follow all the links on a site and some how display the link and/or file it links to.

Thanks


Posted by: yoran

I know how to make something like that in perl, but what do you want to do with a program like that...?


Posted by: Larry

Hi Yoran...

Do you have something already built that can do that?

I want it for "web masters" and the like. If you want to visually see a website, how else can you do it besides manually writing it out?

I'm looking for an easier/faster way
:)


Posted by: yoran

nope, I haven't make something like that before, and I don't know where you can learn it... (I found it out by my self...)

but I can give you a little documentation about getting pages with HTTP.
the only thing you have to do is parsing the HTML and it's done!

[little simple example about parsing html]
[CODE]
$html =~ /&lt;a href=(.+) target=(.+)>(.+)<\/a>/i;
$link = $1; $text = $3;
[/CODE]
Then you will get ONE link of the page, but you must use the foreach-statement to get more!


Posted by: Psycluded

Java/JSP can do this VERY easily using the built-in Document Object Model, especially the latter if you have Tomcat or another JSP app server running on your webserver.

[url=http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.2/tutorial/doc/index.html]Check this out[/url]. Chapter 8 is about the DOM. You can write a fairly simple JSP page that will traverse through your whole site, link by link, and catalogue where each page goes, etc. That is, if I understand what you're asking...


Posted by: yoran

yea, and JAVA or JSP is VERY slow!!!!!