Fetch feature, on submit url

[MichaelMed]

I seen this on other directories. I always thought it was a handy little tool that made completing the form easy.

Allow submitters to enter the url of a Website, and click a, "Fetch," link. The page gets spidered and populates the data fields on the form. Site title from title form, description from meta description.

I know this is not something prudent or really neccessary, but it adds some nice functionality to a directory.

[Boby]

Hello!

This is a very good ideea, I like it. I have this in mind for one of the next phpLD v3 releases.
There are a lot of problems when fetching meta tags from other sites, I have done some tests right now and it seems there are a lot of homepages you can't fetch, and a lot with no metas.
I will definetly take a look at this and discuss it with David.

Thank you.
Boby

[Ap0s7le]

I've already done this, and David knows about it.

There are a lot of problems with fetching meta, for one the built in functions for PHP don't always work, and then falling back on regexp sucks as well because then not all pages even have them.

later

-Casey

[Boby]

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Hey, cool!

I think it can be implemented, if the user has luck and his data is fetched ... ok, else he is typing it as usual :)

[David]

Yes, he showed me a live demo just now.
It seems to be working pretty good. 8)

[Ap0s7le]

Yeah, it doesn't seem to work under older versions of IE.

I need to look into it more when I'm not working so much on other things ;)

Talk with you later,

-Casey