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Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 01:01:17 -0300
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] making system calls from a php extension
From: sosagabriel@gmail.com (Gabriel Sosa)

I'm basically using lynx to convert some html into plain text

basically replicating the following command:

*lynx -pseudo_inlines=off -hiddenlinks=merge -reload -cache=0 -notitle
-force_html -dump -nocolor -stdin*

I've been looking but I didn't find any other library capable to do
the same with "almost" the same quality.

Thanks

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/2011 08:42 PM, Gabriel Sosa wrote:
>>
>> hello everyone!
>>
>> I'm trying to gain some speed by moving a function from PHP legacy
>> code to C and making an extension. I'm trying to call *lynx* from the
>> command line since their C api isn't something soo nice likely to use
>> it as any other libXX
>
> If it were me I would take a step back and look at what lynx was actually
> needed for and whether there are other libraries out there that can do
> similar things. Like libcurl + the html parsing available in libxml2, for
> example. I'm assuming you are calling lynx in order to use its html parser?
>
> Moving something from PHP to C for performance reasons, but leaving in the
> call to an external program isn't going to buy you much, if anything, since
> most of your time is spent forking and launching that external program on
> each request.
>
> -Rasmus
>



-- 
Gabriel Sosa
Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo. - Einstein