I have the Simple HTML DOM Parser for PHP, and I am using the following markup:
$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com');
However how do I send post variables (like a cURL) to that page and get the response? For example
$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com', array("Item"=>"Value", "Item2"=>"Value2"));
The documentation doesn't mention it as far as I can see, but after taking a look in the source code I noticed the function you're using accepts a stream context as its third argument. You can create a post request with this PHP feature like this:
$request = array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query(array(
'Item' => 'Value',
'Item2' => 'Value2'
)),
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($request);
$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com', false, $context);
If you don't like contexts or would prefer a different method (like the cURL extension) you could also just fetch the page content using that, then feed it to the parser with str_get_html()
or $parser->load()
; the class itself does pretty much the same internally with the method you're using right now.
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