Question

I am having trouble with this piece of code below. Whenever I run this file from browser it shows me the same code load_file($target_url); foreach($html->find(‘a’) as $link){ echo $link->href."
"; } ?> on the browser and not the desired result. I am working on a website using xampp. Php is also properly configured.

<?php
 include_once('/simple.php');

 $target_url = "http://www.example.com/";
 $html = new simple_html_dom();
 $html->load_file($target_url);
 foreach($html->find(‘a’) as $link){
 echo $link->href."<br />";
 }
 ?>

Answer 1

For some reason it seems like the PHP parser interprets the -> in $html->load_file( as if it should close PHP parsing, thus showing you the rest of the code as HTML.

it interprets -> as if it was a ?>

The server is probably misconfigured, or some strange option is in effect.

Other PHP files may work fine if they do not contain -> so if not using objects

If they are allowed on your server, you could try alternative syntax:

<script language="php">  
echo "This is HTML script tags.";  
</script> 

Or ASP style syntax

<%   
echo 'This is ASP like style';  
%>

Although ugly it might solve your problem