Hi All, I'm looking for a class to help me log data about user agents and search engine spiders. I came across PHPClientSniffer (http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/81.html), which looks good for things like detecting Javascript support. I'll probably incorporate some of this, but my primary concern at the moment is detecting wheter a user agent is probably a spider. There are dozens of known spiders. Ideally the class works against a csv or, even better, an XML file of known spiders that I can update as new ones become known. In a perfect world, someone (me?) hosts this XML file on a public web server so users of this class can refresh it once a week or so. On a related note, I'm looking for a class that parses the referer string for common search engines. For example, Google referer strings usually look something like this (in English): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=some+search+term It would be awesome if there were a class that allowed me to do something like this: $referer=&new Referer($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); If($referer->is_search_engine()) { //return array of search words $searchPhrase=($referer->get_searchTerms()); //return language of search engine $lang=$refer->get_language(); } And on the spider side: $spider=&new Spider($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); If($spider->is_known_spider()) { //return common name of spider (e.g. "Google" or "Yahoo") $name=$spider->get_commonName(); //return whether this spider is known to be a spambot $evil=$spider->is_spambot(); } I'd write this myself, but the need isn't critical at this point. A "nice to have" instead of a "nead to have." Thanks! -Derek ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/saFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Look here for Free PHP Classes of objects: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
