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Asked: 2026-06-07T15:39:45+00:00

Im using PHP to load a website in a DOM Tree. Is there a

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Im using PHP to load a website in a DOM Tree. Is there a way to modify the user agent that is sent using DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile()?

function parseThis($url)
{
  $html = new DOMDocument();
  $html->loadHtmlFile( $url );

  return $html
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Change the user_agent value in php.ini, which should be sent in anything making use of the http stream wrapper like DOMDocument::loadHtmlFile(), file_get_contents(), etc. 

    $fake_user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11";
ini_set('user_agent', $fake_user_agent);

    The same can also be accomplished in an Apache .htaccess by setting php_value user_agent if permitted by your server configuration.

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