Question

I’m using CURL to extract some real estate listings.
But, recently, a website changed his way to communicate the phone number:
The visitor must click on a “Show the phone number” link that returns the result in jSon.
I found these information with Firebug:

http://www.realestate.com/phone/click.json?Id=023DSFS

And for the linkn the code source is (obiously):

<a href="#" class="showDetail">Show the phone number</a>

So, how can I simulate a click and put store my result in a php var?

Thank you,

Regards.

Answer 1

Maybe you can simply do

$var = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));

This is assuming allow_url_fopen = On and you don’t need to have specific cookies for the http request to return the results.