#62 PHPCrawl doesn't work - please help.

[Anonymous]

Hi there.
I just downloaded PHPCrawl, and I can't seem to make it work. I'm trying to run example.php as shown on their webpage: http://phpcrawl.cuab.de/example.html, but it gives me this error:

Warning: unlink(): No such file or directory in .../PHPCrawl_081/libs/PHPCrawlerUtils.class.php on line 572

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Error creating working directory '/phpcrawl_tmp_26711389643165/'' in .../PHPCrawl_081/libs/PHPCrawler.class.php:782 Stack trace: #0 ...PHPCrawl_081/libs/PHPCrawler.class.php(276): PHPCrawler->createWorkingDirectory() #1 .../PHPCrawl_081/libs/PHPCrawler.class.php(532): PHPCrawler->initCrawlerProcess() #2 .../PHPCrawl_081/libs/PHPCrawler.class.php(330): PHPCrawler->startChildProcessLoop() #3 .../PHPCrawl_081/example.php(62): PHPCrawler->go() #4 {main} thrown in .../PHPCrawl_081/libs/PHPCrawler.class.php on line 782

Can anyone help me please?
I'm really stuck here :(

Thanks in advance, Mathias Lund.

[Anonymous]

Hi Mathias!

Are you using windows?

If so, this probably is the (open) bug as described here:
http://sourceforge.net/p/phpcrawl/bugs/57/

The detection of the system-temp-dir fails.

This will get fixed in the next version.

For a temporary workaround, please set the temp/working-directory of the crawler manually by using setWorkingDirectory() brefore calling the go method in your script.
(http://phpcrawl.cuab.de/classreferences/PHPCrawler/method_detail_tpl_method_setWorkingDirectory.htm)

This can be any writablwe direcrtory on you system.

Please let me know if this works for you.

[Anonymous]

Hi! Thanks for your support, but I still can't make it work.
I'm running on OSX.
I'm not sure what you mean by manually setting a setWorkingDirectory().

Does that mean that I place
$crawler->setWorkingDirectory("/tmp/");

in example.php, and create a new folder named "tmp" in my project?

I'm kind of new to crawling sorry :)

Thanks for aiding me!

[Uwe Hunfeld]

Yes, just set the working directory to ANY existing and writeable directory you want.
phpcrawl just needs it to store some temporary data.

Like $crawler->setWorkingDirectory("/home/me/dontknow/temp/");

BTW: "/tmp/" is NOT in your project-directory, that would be "./tmp/".

[Anonymous]

Man thank you so much!! I just edited the WorkingDirectory in PHPCrawler.class.php to a folder on my desktop.

I wouldn't have been able to do it without your assistance.
Thank you so much!

[Anonymous]

OK! So im closing this since the bug is already reportet here:
http://sourceforge.net/p/phpcrawl/bugs/57/

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

I did this just before $crawler->go();

$crawler->setWorkingDirectory("./tmp/");

And I created a tmp folder in the same directory as my example.php. Doesn't work, gives the same error.

[Uwe Hunfeld]

Hi!

Just seems that phpcrawl doesn't have the permission to write to you tmp-dir.
Get sure the user who runs phpcrawl has the permission.