I cannot remember why I was busy fiddling with cURL, but I did some fiddling scraping URLs using the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser library.
In this tutorial:
- Enable cURL
- Demo
- PHP code
See also:
1. Enable cURL
- Open php.ini
- Search for an uncomment:
extension=curl - Restart Apache
2. Demo
View a demo of the following code: Simple HTML DOM Parser demo
3. PHP code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>stylus :: Simple HTML DOM Parser demo</title>
<style>
* {
font-family: Arial;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Simple HTML DOM Parser demo</h1>
<p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/" target="_blank">simplehtmldom</a></p>
<p>Simple implementation of the Simple HTML DOM Parser.</p>
<p>Provide a fully qualified URL and the scraper will return a page displaying just the images from that URL.</p>
<form action="" method="POST">
<label for="scrapeurl">URL: </label><input type="text" name="scrapeurl" />
<input type="submit" name="scraper" />
</form>
<?php
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
if ($_POST['scrapeurl']) {
/* https://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/ */
require('simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php');
$url = $_POST['scrapeurl'];
echo '<p>URL scraped: <a href="' . $url . '" target="_blank">' . $url . '</a></p>';
if ($html = file_get_html($url)) {
foreach ($html->find('img') as $element) {
echo '<p>' . $element->src . '</p>';
echo '<img src="' . $element->src . '" />';
}
} else {
echo '<p>There is a problem with the URL: ' . $url . '</p>';
}
} else {
echo '<p>You posted nada...</p>';
}
}
?>
</body>
</html>
- php Manual. (no date) Client URL Library. Available at: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl (Accessed: 19 June 2024).
- SourceForge. (2021) PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. Available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/ (Accessed: 19 June 2024).