<?php
include_once 'simple_html_dom.php';
function scraping_generic($url, $search)
{
$return = false;
echo "reading the url: " . $url . "<br/>";
$html = file_get_html($url);
echo "url has been read.<br/>";
foreach ($html->find($search) as $found) {
$return - true;
echo "found a: " . $search . "<br/><pre>";
$found->dump();
echo "</pre><br/>";
}
$html->clear();
unset($html);
return $return;
}
error_log("post:" . print_r($_POST, true));
$url = "";
if (isset($_POST['url'])) {
$url = $_POST['url'];
}
$search = "";
if (isset($_POST['search'])) {
$search = $_POST['search'];
}
?>
<form method="post">
URL: <input name="url" type="text" value="<?php
echo $url;
?>"/><br/>
Search: <input name="search" type="text" value="<?php
echo $search;
?>"/>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$response = scraping_generic($_POST['url'], $_POST['search']);
if (!$response) {
echo "Did not find any: " . $_POST['search'] . "<br />";
}
}