Question

How can I use PHP to grab some html from a different (local) page?

I have a page “Product1.htm” and I want the text from the div with the class”price” to be found and then displayed on a different page: “Products_overview.htm”. So inside Products_overview.htm is something, PHP i guess, which targets product1.htm and displays the contents of “Price” DIV.

No idea how to do this though I’m sure it must be embarrassingly simple! Any help?

Answer 1

Simple way: use simple HTML Dom:

Example:

Page.html

Some html...

<div class="price">
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</div>

Some html...

PHP File:

<?php
include 'simple_html_dom.php';
$html = file_get_html('page.html');

echo $html->find("div[class=price]", 0); // will echo content inside a <div class="price"> </div>
?>