example_scraping_slashdot.php in simplehtmldom API 5.2

File

simplehtmldom/example/scraping/example_scraping_slashdot.php

<?php

include_once '../../simple_html_dom.php';
function scraping_slashdot() {

  // create HTML DOM
  $html = file_get_html('http://slashdot.org/');

  // get article block
  foreach ($html
    ->find('div[id^=firehose-]') as $article) {

    // get title
    $item['title'] = trim($article
      ->find('a.datitle', 0)->plaintext);

    // get body
    $item['body'] = trim($article
      ->find('div.body', 0)->plaintext);
    $ret[] = $item;
  }

  // clean up memory
  $html
    ->clear();
  unset($html);
  return $ret;
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// test it!
$ret = scraping_slashdot();
foreach ($ret as $v) {
  echo $v['title'] . '<br>';
  echo '<ul>';
  echo '<li>' . $v['body'] . '</li>';
  echo '</ul>';
}

Functions

Name	Description
scraping_slashdot