I am trying to parse a webpage and print out a table which is on the webpage. I am using php_simple_html dom parser. However, when I try to parse the table off the webpage, all the javascript commands to output the table get turned into comments within the php:
<html>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<?php
include 'crawling/simple_html_dom.php';
$html = file_get_html('http://uiucfreefood.com/');
$ret = $html->find('body', 0)->find('div', 10)->find('table',0); //gets to the table tag
echo $ret; // nothing is echoed out because the original webpage uses jscript commands to write the table to the page but these commands get turned to comments for some reason.
?>
</html>
When I inspect the element of the page where I am echoing the parsed information I am able to see that the table tag with all the info is in there but the jscript commands have been turned into comments. Is there a way for me to just grab the info and echo it out myself? I tried adding another ->find('tbody'); at the end of the parse command but it doesn't do anything. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: You can try this code out yourself if you download the simple_html_dom.php and include it in your php file. Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/
EDIT: Just noticed something really important. The javascript commands are commented out in the original webpage also. Instead, the original webpage is using a javascript function to print out the table which I do not have defined. Writing that function myself should fix the issue.
EDIT: yup, that worked.
