generating a diagram - flowchart of a website

Larry · 07-16-2003, 01:56 PM

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

yoran · 08-15-2003, 06:34 AM

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

Larry · 08-15-2003, 12:32 PM

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

yoran · 08-16-2003, 03:51 AM

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;

Then you will get ONE link of the page, but you must use the foreach-statement to get more!

Psycluded · 08-22-2003, 12:26 PM

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.

Check this out. 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...

yoran · 08-28-2003, 06:08 AM

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

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Larry Administrator Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,408	generating a diagram - flowchart of a website 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

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yoran Junior Techie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 66	I know how to make something like that in perl, but what do you want to do with a program like that...? __________________ Da //FRAG-clan is da best! ahum...

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yoran Junior Techie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 66	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 =~ /<a href=(.+) target=(.+)>(.+)<\/a>/i; $link = $1; $text = $3; Then you will get ONE link of the page, but you must use the foreach-statement to get more! Attached Images __________________ Da //FRAG-clan is da best! ahum...

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yoran Junior Techie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 66	yea, and JAVA or JSP is VERY slow!!!!! __________________ Da //FRAG-clan is da best! ahum...

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08-15-2003, 12:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
Larry Administrator Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,408	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

08-22-2003, 12:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
Psycluded Newb Techie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 16	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. Check this out. 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...