Thanks the both of you. I have a better idea of what to do now.

I don't really understand the regular expression example.

$regex = '/(href|src)=["\'](.*?)["\']/i';
href and src is the html...

Thanks mate. I actually saw your post from 2007. I was going through one of your code on your website.

I'll try and understand what your trying to do. I'll write on here if I have any question.
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My friend and I are working on an Internet bot. We want to make a bot that given a website, would index into a table.

Example --

Given the website: www.daniweb.com

Add to table:
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this is a general question. do you think that a bandwidth estimator can be used to measure the bandwidth and optimise a users video viewing experience.

in other words, if i have a 56k connection...