October 18, 2012
Retrieve posts from craigslist in PHP
Question by TapThatApp
I want to use file_get_contents to grab only information between the p
tags.
I’ve tried to use DOM elements but when I use getElementByTagName and loop through the array, it strips all HTML within the <p> tag.
<?php
function search(){
$city = $_POST['city'];
$scity = trim($city);
$dom = new DOMDocument;
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://'.$scity.'.craigslist.org/search/cto?query=Toyota');
libxml_use_internal_errors(false);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$contents = $xpath->query('//p[@class="row"]');
foreach($contents as $val){
echo '<a href="' . $val->getElementsByTagName('a')->getAttribute('href') . '">' . utf8_decode(trim($val->nodeValue, " -,")) . "</a><br />n";;
}
}
?>
I want it to display just as it does on craigslist.
The title with the link to craigslist and price, img etc…
Answer by Starx
Use preg_match_all():
$text = file_get_contents("....");
preg_match_all('|<p>(.*?)</p>|',$texst, $matches); //Use regex to match all inside `p`
var_dump($matches); //View the matches
