Hello everyone,
I am trying to retrieve some info from a remote site using PHP DOMDocument and I cannot figure out why the code returns NULL, although the provided ID exists on the page. Please help.
$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0", "utf-8");
@$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://sports.yahoo.com/news/messis-tax-hearing-put-back-122033643--sow.html');
$content = $dom->getElementById('yog-content');
var_dump($content);
If I run this code I get an error message (which you are hiding with the @): DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile(): htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in http://sports.yahoo.com/news/messis-tax-hearing-put-back-122033643--sow.html, line: 539 meaning the DOM could not be parsed correctly. Resulting method calls will fail.
Addition: this may help:
$content = file_get_contents('http://sports.yahoo.com/news/messis-tax-hearing-put-back-122033643--sow.html');
$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0", "utf-8");
$dom->recover = true;
$dom->strictErrorChecking = false;
$dom->loadHTML($content);
Thank you for reply. The result is still NULL and I do not get the error message, even if I have removed '@'. It's strange.
I think the unesaped & on that page is causing this. What you can try is to replace them before loading.
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