Screen scapingin in php using file_get_contents

Question

Hi I am very new to screen scraping. I am trying to scrape reviews from a hotel booking webite to display on to mine..

Ive got this far but got a bit stuck. Can anyone h

Answer 1

use DomDocument

<?php
  define('URL', 'http://www.laterooms.com/en/hotel-reviews/238902_the-westfield-bb-sandown.aspx');
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->loadHTML(file_get_contents(URL));
  $summary = $doc->getElementById('summary');
  // also have $doc->getElementsByTagName , etc
  var_export($summary);
?>

Also, for more complicated queries you should consider looking into XPATH (uses jQuery-like syntax)