netscape-bookmark-parser
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About
This library provides a generic NetscapeBookmarkParser class that is able
of parsing Netscape bookmark export files., (*3)
The motivations behind developing this parser are the following:
- the Netscape format
has a very loose specification:
no DTD
nor XSL stylesheet
to constrain how data is formatted
- software and web services export bookmarks using a wild variety of attribute
names and values
- using standard SAX or DOM parsers is thus not straightforward., (*4)
How it works:
- the input bookmark file is trimmed and sanitized to improve parsing results
- the resulting data is then parsed using PCRE patterns
to match attributes and values corresponding to the most likely:
- attribute names: description vs. note, tags vs. labels, date vs. time, etc.
- data formats: comma,separated,tags vs. space separated labels,
UNIX epochs vs. human-readable dates, newlines & carriage returns, etc.
- an associative array containing all successfully parsed links with their
attributes is returned, (*5)
Example
Script:, (*6)
<?php
require_once 'NetscapeBookmarkParser.php';
$parser = new NetscapeBookmarkParser();
$bookmarks = $parser->parseFile('./tests/input/netscape_basic.htm');
var_dump($bookmarks);
Output:, (*7)
array(2) {
[0] =>
array(6) {
'tags' =>
string(14) "private secret"
'uri' =>
string(19) "https://private.tld"
'title' =>
string(12) "Secret stuff"
'note' =>
string(52) "Super-secret stuff you're not supposed to know about"
'time' =>
int(971175336)
'pub' =>
int(0)
}
[1] =>
array(6) {
'tags' =>
string(18) "public hello world"
'uri' =>
string(17) "http://public.tld"
'title' =>
string(12) "Public stuff"
'note' =>
string(0) ""
'time' =>
int(1456433748)
'pub' =>
int(1)
}
}
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