How to echo php containing html?
Instead of using <?php readfile("http://www.website.com/footer.php");?> for every part of the website (footer, header, paypal forms, e.t.c.) I want to merge all parts (like below) into one php file, and then echo specific lines of that file into html.
I have done extensive research on Stackoverflow and other platforms, and tried many implementations. Please, can you assist with my below code, and point me to the right direction?
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You seem to be looking to scrape html elements using php, and then save the scraped html elements to a new html file. A good way to do this, is to use the DomDocument class and xpath queries to find the element. Then create a new html document and append the found elements to the new document, and save to a file. For example:
<?
//create array of element tags to be scraped from target url
$elements = ["header", "div"];
//get html from target url
$html = file_get_contents('http://www.nytimes.com');
//instantiate new instance DOMDocument for target html.
$dom = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(TRUE); //disable libxml errors
$dom->loadHTML($html);
libxml_clear_errors();
//instantiate DOMXPath for the ability to do xpath queries.
//xpath is powerful for this example using basic query can be used to query by class id etc
//DOMDocument powerful too. Read documents here: http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
//instantiate DOMDocument for new HTML document where founds elements from target will be saved to.
$new_dom = new DOMDocument();
$new_dom->formatOutput = true;
//save basic html element to document
$new_dom->loadXML("<html></html>");
$new_dom->saveXML();
//iterate over $elements array
foreach($elements as $element){
//query by xpath for the element
$element_node = $xpath->query("//".$element);
//iterate over found elements and add to the new html document
foreach($element_node as $row){
$node = $new_dom->importNode($row, true);
$new_dom->documentElement->appendChild($node);
$new_dom->saveXML();
}
}
//save found elements to new html document
$new_dom->save('test.html');