Accessing HTML DOM Elements with PHP

Tutorial

Include the Library

1	include_once("include/simple_html_dom.inc.php");

Get URL Content:

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$get_url = 'https://carlofontanos.com';
$get_content = file_get_html($get_url);
print_r($get_content);

Get Page Title:

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$get_content = file_get_html($get_url);
foreach($get_content->find('title') as $element) {
$page_title = $element->plaintext;
print_r($page_title);
}

Get Body Text

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$get_content = file_get_html($get_url);
foreach($get_content->find('body') as $element) {
$page_body = trim($element->plaintext);
$pos = strpos($page_body, ' ', 200); //Find the numeric position to substract
$page_body = substr($page_body,0,$pos ); //shorten text to 200 chars
print_r($page_body . '<br />');
}

Get all images in the content:

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$image_urls = array();
foreach($get_content->find('img') as $element) {
if($element->src){
echo '<img src ="' . $element->src . '" width = "100" height = "100" />';
}
}

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