user_abort

[Geo]

Hello,

I didn't catch how to implement user abortion. Could you, please, drop an example, explaining where to insert the command and how? Would be great. Thank you in advance.

[Uwe Hunfeld]

Hi,

it's possible to abort the crawling-process by returning any negative value from the handlePageData()-method.

Just an example:

// ...
class MyCrawler extends PHPCrawler 
{
  function handlePageData(&$page_data) 
  {
    // ...
    // Will stop the crawling-process as soon as the current URL contains "something"
    if (preg_match("#something#", $page_data["url"])) return -1;
  }
}
// ...

Is it this what you mean with "user abortion"?