Using Multiple page.open in Single Script

Question

My goal is to execute PhantomJS by using:

// adding $op and $er for debugging purposes
exec(\'phantomjs script.js\', $op, $er);
print_r($op);
echo $er;
         


        

Answer 1

The problem is that the second page.open is being invoked before the first one finishes, which can cause multiple problems. You want logic roughly like the following (assuming the filenames are given as command line arguments):

function handle_page(file){
    page.open(file,function(){
        ...
        page.evaluate(function(){
            ...do stuff...
        });
        page.render(...);
        setTimeout(next_page,100);
    });
}
function next_page(){
    var file=args.shift();
    if(!file){phantom.exit(0);}
    handle_page(file);
}
next_page();

Right, it's recursive. This ensures that the processing of the function passed to page.open finishes, with a little 100ms grace period, before you go to the next file.

By the way, you don't need to keep repeating

page = require('webpage').create();