How do I get text from a website using PHP?

Question

So, I\'m working on a PHP script, and part of it needs to be able to query a website, then get text from it.

First off, I need to be able to query a certain website

Answer 1

I would do a dom search, take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/es/domdocument.load.php Domxpath might be very useful too: http://php.net/manual/en/class.domxpath.php

$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load("http://mysite.com");
$xpath = new DOMXpath($doc);
$elements = $xpath->query("*/div[@id='yourTagIdHere']");