PHP parsing invalid html

Question

i\'m trying to parse some html that is not on my server

    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    $dom->loadHTMLfile(\"http://www.some-site.org/page.aspx\");              


        

Answer 1

Have a look at: libxml_use_internal_errors()

http://php.net/libxml_use_internal_errors

Answer 2

Reading the docs, I see a $dom->strictErrorChecking that defaults to TRUE. What happens if you set $dom->strictErrorChecking = false?

Answer 3

You should run HTML Tidy on it to clean it up before parsing it.

$html = file_get_contents('http://www.some-site.org/page.aspx');
$config = array(
  'clean' => 'yes',
  'output-html' => 'yes',
);
$tidy = tidy_parse_string($html, $config, 'utf8');
$tidy->cleanRepair();
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($tidy);

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