无法通过php阅读aliexpress.com

Question

I'm trying to read aliexpress.com deals page via php. I'm not able to get the details of the page in output.

Is there a way I can get the details.

Below is the code.

<?php
    include('simple_html_dom.php');
    $url = 'http://activities.aliexpress.com/superdeals.php';
    $xml = file_get_html($url);
    //$file = 'output1.txt';
    $element = $xml;
    echo $element;
?>

Answer 1

This website used AJAX
There are two solutions :
- Make the same request as Javascript
- Using a tool like Phantomjs

If you look at requests, you will find easily that a GET request is made and return all information in JSON. So you need to find by yourself the link or use third party library + tools.

EDIT:

You can use your web browser to get the link (I don't give you it because i think stackoverflow is not for that) with firebug or if you're using chrome, in network tab search for the JSON.

$url = "....";
$str = file_get_contents($url);
if($str) {
    $json = json_decode($str, true); // json is an array
    // ... do what you need
}

I recommend to use curl instead of file_get_contents for many reasons.

Or you can use Phantomjs (it's really more difficult) and get a "HTML snapshot" and then use DOM or XPATH to get what you need, but you must run Phantomjs and use a third party library for communicate with it.