Parseing using simple dom

PHP
1

Hi Guys,

What i’m trying to do is parse some html using the simple php dom class, i managed to parse a site already but i’m having trouble with this particular site.

Code:


<?php
if (isset($_POST['submitAddClickbankProducts'])) {
    $searchString = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['searchName']);
    $catID        = (int) $_POST['searchCatID'];
    
    // Clean the string
    $searchString = str_replace('"',"",$searchString);	
	  $searchString = str_replace(" ","+",$searchString);
    
    if (empty($searchString)) {
        print "<p class=\\"fcs-message-error\\">You never entered a root search term.</p>";
    } //empty($searchString)
    else {
        $search_url = "http://www.clickbank.com/mkplSearchResult.htm?dores=true&includeKeywords=$searchString";
        $ch         = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Firefox (WindowsXP) - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $search_url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
        $html = curl_exec($ch);
        if (!$html) {
            echo "<p class=\\"fcs-message-error\\">cURL error:" . curl_error($ch) . " (Error Number " . curl_errno($ch) . ")</p>";
        } //!$html
        curl_close($ch);
        
        $targetString = "No results found";
        
        if (stristr($html, $targetString) == true) {
            echo "<p class=\\"fcs-message-error\\">No clickbank products were found.</p>";
            include("../inc/inc-footer-admin.php");
            exit;
        } //stristr($html, $targetString) == true
        else {
            $xpath   = file_get_html($search_url);
            $results = $xpath->find('div[class=results]', 0)->find('tr[class=result]');
            
            foreach ($results as $result) {
                $pdcT   = strip_tags($result->find('td[class=details]', 0));
                //$pdcD   = strip_tags($result->find('div[class=description]', 0));
                $pdcA   = $result->find('a', 1);
                $pdcU   = $pdcA->href;
                $hopurl = str_replace("zzzzz", "graham25s", $pdcU);
                $hopurl = trim($hopurl);
                
                echo "<b>Name:</b>  " . $pdcT;
                echo "<br />";
                echo "<b>Desc:</b>  " . $pdcD;
                echo "<br />";
                echo "<b>URLs:</b> " . $hopurl;
                echo "<br /><hr />";
                              
                $titleWithoutprice = explode('$', $pdcT);
                $stringCleaned     = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", " ", $titleWithoutprice[0]);
                $stringCleaned     = rtrim($stringCleaned);
                $stringCleaned     = ltrim($stringCleaned);
                $stringCleaned     = ucwords($stringCleaned);
                
                $ignoreWords = array(
                    "Commission",
                    "commission",
                    "affiliate",
                    "Affiliate",
                    "affiliates",
                    "Affiliates",
                    "Conversion",
                    "conversion",
                    "conversions",
                    "Conversions"
                );
                
                $newDescription = str_replace($ignoreWords, "<a href=\\"$hopurl\\" target=\\"_blank\\"><b>CLICK HERE TO GET A SPECIAL DISCOUNT OFF THIS PRODUCT! LIMITED!</b></a>", $pdcD);
                
              
            } //$results as $result
            
            
        }
        
        
        if ($I) {
            print "<p class=\\"fcs-message-success\\">You have successfully populated from clickbank.</p>";
        } //$I
        else {
            print '<p class="fcs-message-error">OOPS, an error has occured please contact the site administrator.</p>';
        }
    }
} //isset($_POST['submitAddClickbankProducts'])
?>

An example URL is:

http://www.clickbank.com/mkplSearchResult.htm?includeKeywords=cure+eczema

I’m just trying to parse the product: Name, Description & Hop URL.

The way my code is now the “Name:” when printed out brings me back: Name: 14 Days Eczema Cure. All Natural Cure For Curing Eczema In 14 Days. Simple Step By Step Methods To Eliminate Eczema. Massive 75% Commissions.

All in 1 line where as it should be:

14 Days Eczema Cure.

All Natural Cure For Curing Eczema In 14 Days. Simple Step By Step Methods To Eliminate Eczema. Massive 75% Commissions.

Both seperately.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks guys

Graham

2

If you mean simple_html_dom, I have some code here that will get you the desired parsed parts:


//This is assuming you've loaded the html into a simple_html_dom object called $xpath, of course.
$items = $xpath->find("td.details");

foreach($items as $item)
{
	$item_header = $item->find("a", 0);
	$name = $item_header->plaintext;
	$link = $item_header->href;
	$description = $item->find(".description", 0)->plaintext;
	
	echo $name," - ",$link,"<br>",$description,"\
<br><br>\
";
}

You can modify it to fit your purposes.
I hope this helps!