This program gets two pieces of information from my home page (https://www.bartonphillips.com/index.php).
The 'r1' looks like this:
The 'r2' looks like this:
The information is displayed below in boxes 'r1' and 'r2'. You can look at the source code by clicking on the button below.
<?php
// BLP 2023-02-25 - use new approach
// scraper-await-fetch.php
// BLP 2021-09-26 -- remove hard r1, r2 and get it from bartonphillips.com/index.php
// Demo shows how to use PHPHtmlParser to scrape a webpage.
// The demo uses an 'async function' to get two set of information from my website.
// It uses a GET and a POST 'fetch' and awaits each and then returns the two results.
// The PHPHtmlParser\Dom is a great way to scrape information off of websites. I use it to
// scrape stock information from the Wall Street Journal website and it works great.
// https://github.com/paquettg/php-html-parser
// This demo uses my SiteClass mini-framework. Full documentation can be found at
// https://github.com/bartonlp/site-class
// Instanciate the SiteClass
$_site = require_once(getenv("SITELOADNAME"));
$S = new $_site->className($_site);
use PHPHtmlParser\Dom;
// We have two demo server function that return pieces of my webpage.
// We use 'fetch()' instead of AJAX as it uses Promises and is easier to use.
// If $_GET['page'] equals 'one'. This is a GET call from 'sql()'
if($_GET['page'] == 'one') {
$dom = new Dom;
// grab the file. We need the HTML not PHP so we use the 'https' protocal.
// The returned information is just the html.
$x = $dom->loadFromUrl("https://www.bartonphillips.com/index.php");
// Get everything from the <section> with the id of 'others'
$mysite = $x->find("#others");
$ret = ['mysite'=>trim($mysite->innerHTML)]; //BLP 2021-09-26 -- remove leading and trailing spaces
$ret = json_encode($ret);
echo $ret;
exit();
};
// If $_POST['page'] equals 'two'. This a POST call from 'sql()'
if($_POST['page'] == 'two') {
$dom = new Dom;
// Same as above.
$x = $dom->loadFromUrl("https://www.bartonphillips.com/index.php");
// This time we get two <h2> item from each section.
$interesting = $x->find("#interesting")->innerHTML;
$ret = ['interesting'=>trim($interesting)]; // BLP 2021-09-26 -- remove leading and trailing spaces
$ret = trim(json_encode($ret));
echo $ret;
exit();
}
// This is the source code and we change all of the < and > to '<', '>'
$sourceCode = escapeltgt(file_get_contents('scraper-await-fetch.php'));
$S->title = "Scraper Demo";
$S->banner = "<h1>Scraper, Async, Fetch</h1>";
// The css is for the two sections scraped from my webpage.
$S->css = <<<EOF
#r1, #r2 {
border: 1px solid black;
padding: .5rem;
overflow: auto;
}
#info p {
color: red;
}
pre {
background: lightblue;
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
overflow-x: auto;
}
.mylinks {
text-align: center;
margin: auto;
border-spacing: .5rem;
}
EOF;
$S->h_script = <<<EOF
<!-- We use syntaxhighliter and the theme.css to show the sourcecode. -->
<script src="https://bartonphillips.net/js/syntaxhighlighter.js"></script>
<link rel='stylesheet' href="https://bartonphillips.net/css/theme.css">
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
// If you click on the 'Show Source Code' button we display the code via 'syntaxhightliter'.
// We need to escape the dollar signs in the `...` sections with '\$' because this is part of the PHP.
// Note, that 'syntaxhighlighter' changes the <pre class='brush: php'> into <div>s.
// The div class is 'syntaxhightlighter'.
$('#source').hide(); // Hide the source code.
$('#showsource').on("click", function(e) {
$('#showsource').remove();
$('#source').show();
});
// While loading the async stuff put up a message
$("#info").html("<p>Loading <img src='https://bartonphillips.net/images/loading.gif'></p>");
// Get the two 'fetch()' items from the server.
sql().then(d => {
// d has the two items r1 and r2.
//console.log("d:", d);
let r1 = d.r1.mysite;
r1 = r1.replaceAll(/</g, "<").replaceAll(/>/g, ">").replaceAll(/> /g, ">
");
//console.log("r1:", r1);
$("#r1").html(r1);
let r2 = d.r2.interesting;
r2 = r2.replaceAll(/</g, "<").replaceAll(/>/g, ">").replaceAll(/> /g, ">
");
//console.log("r2:", r2);
$("#r2").html(r2);
$("#info").html(
`r1:
<div id='r1'>
\${d.r1.mysite}</div>
r2:
<div id="r2">
\${d.r2.interesting}</div>`);
})
.catch(err => console.log(err)); // catch any errors
// an 'async function' that does a GET 'fetch()' and a POST 'fetch()'
async function sql() {
// The information comes back as 'json' so convert it.
// This could have all been done with a single fetch but I have used two for demo purpuses.
// The fist does a GET and the second does a POST.
let r1 = await fetch("scraper-await-fetch.php?page=one").then(data => data.json());
let r2 = await fetch("scraper-await-fetch.php", {
body: "page=two", // make this look like form data
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' // We need the x-www-form-urlencoded type
}
}).then(data => data.json());
return {r1: r1, r2: r2};
};
});
</script>
EOF;
[$top, $footer] = $S->getPageTopBottom();
// Now render the page.
// Note that the <pre> is turned into <div>'s by 'syntaxhightlighter' so we need to use the new
// class name as mentioned above.
echo <<<EOF
$top
<hr>
<p>This program gets two pieces of information from my home page (https://www.bartonphillips.com/index.php).</p>
<p>The 'r1' looks like this:</p>
<pre id='r1'>
</pre>
<p>The 'r2' looks like this:</p>
<pre id='r2'>
</pre>
<p>The information is displayed below in boxes 'r1' and 'r2'. You can look at the source code by clicking on
the button below.</p>
<button id="showsource">Show Source Code</button>
<div id="source">
<pre class='brush: php'>$sourceCode</pre>
</div>
<div id='info'></div>
<hr>
$footer
EOF;