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well Guys

i am not sure if what i want is atleast possible or not.

what i want is to write a script in php, which will crawl through all my hard drive for all files and folders irrespctive of the file type and pick the emails address up and then put those address in a database uniquley.

any master progreammer out there? who can make it happen, i wud definatly offer a cup coffee to solve this complex problem.

many thanks in advance

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For browsing files, you can use glob(), readdir() or DirectoryIterator. You get the content with file_get_contents() and parse them with preg_match_all().

If you're on *nix, it's a lot easier to just call grep.

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