Hi all,

I am new to DOMDocument, I come up this code to extract content from a website:

<?php                                                                           

$file  = file_get_contents('http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/cooking');                    

$html = new DOMDocument();                                                      

$html->loadHtml( $file );                                                       

$xpath = new DOMXPath( $html );                                                 

//working query, that proofs the DOMXPath object created correctly.
$links = $xpath->query( "//a" );                                                

//not working query, I can't figure out why as the syntax works fine in Firebug
//$links = $xpath->query( "//a[contains(@class,'post')]" );                     

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');                               

foreach ( $links as $link )                                                     

{                                                                               

    echo $link->textContent, "<br />";                                          

}                                                                               

?>

My question is: the first query works just fine, but the second (commented out) just won't return anything.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks

    Okay, I figured out where the problem is: file_get_contents does not get the same content as a regular browser sees. I have tried a few alternative code by cURL, still didn't solve the problem, I simply can't get the content of <div id="module"> node in that page by any PHP method.

    Also tried is to ini_set the browser agent.

    Help please;-)

      [man]file_get_contents/man is going to make an HTTP request to the remote webserver, just as a web browser will do.

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