Troubles with a spider class


Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

I am building a spider that will crawl through random whitepages (eg. anywho.com, switchboard.com, whitepages.com, etc..) and collect the information on the people found there and throw it into a database. So far I've only made this little prototype, however after trying to run it I've run into a bunch of problems....a lot of them I fixed but there are some with the expressions that I can't figure out.

Here are the errors:
QuoteWarning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Compilation failed: missing ) at offset 57 in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 51
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Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 72
Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: No ending delimiter '^' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 73
Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending delimiter '^' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 76
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter '.' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 92
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter '^' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 93
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter '.' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 94
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter '^' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 95
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter '*' found in /home/public_html/spider/inc/anywho.class.php on line 96

Along with these it isn't printing out the info like it is suppose to on line 56 of anywho.class.php
As to the fact that these are two files and a little bigger then the normal "snippet" I posted them both in a pin board. The links are below.

Spider Class: http://www.coderprofile.com/networks/code-pin-board/258/spiderclassphp
Anywho Class: http://www.coderprofile.com/networks/code-pin-board/257/anywhospiderclassphp

And here is the source of the form page:

Code: <?php
require("spider.class.php");
require("anywho.class.php");

$spider=new spider("Lorem Ipsum","Lorem Ipsum","Lorem Ipsum","localhost",15);
$any=new anywho;

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$state=$_POST['state'];
$last=$_POST['last'];
$first = (isset($_POST['first'])) ? $_POST['first'] : null;
$street = (isset($_POST['street'])) ? $_POST['street'] : null;
$zip = (isset($_POST['zip'])) ? $_POST['zip'] : null;

$any->initialize($last,$state,$first,$street,$city,$zip);
$any->any_crawl($any->url,0,1);
}
?>
<form action="index.php" method="post">
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last">*

First Name: <input type="text" name="first">

Street: <input type="text" name="street">

Zip: <input type="text" name="zip">

State:
<select name="state" style="height:17px; font-size:9px;">
<option value="">Select a State</option>
<option value="AL" selected="selected" >Alabama</option>
...........................
...........................
<option value="WY">Wyoming</option>
</select>*


<input type="submit" value="Crawl" name="submit">
</form>


I'm really sorry about the messy code and poor documentation.

Also I really appreciate any and all replies!
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