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William The Dev
William The Dev

Reputation: 505

How to use file_get_contents on Ajax site

When you use file_gets_contents($website) or cURL to load a website, does it load the whole website? I am mostly interested about using cURL.

I am using it to load a webpage that then gets some contents such as price using AJAX and it has some problems getting the prices.

When I use file_get_contents, does it load as normally as a whole website does on a browser plus the stuff loaded using Ajax?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8594

Answers (2)

SteAp
SteAp

Reputation: 11999

The snippet

$website = 'http://stackoverflow.com/';
file_gets_contents($website)

loads the result of the HTTP-request, nothing else. Thus, the call loads the source of the html-page returned by the URL http://stackoverflow.com/.

Especially, file_gets_contents() does not load stuff referenced by the page pointed to by http://stackoverflow.com/.

Evaluating JavaScript code using PHP

In case you'd like to evaluate JavaScript inside of HTML-code using a PHP-script, you'd probably wish to use the V8 JavaScript engine, which needs to be compiled into your PHP-binary:

Find an example how to use the V8 JavaScript engine here.

Upvotes: 0

plasmid87
plasmid87

Reputation: 1471

No. Using file_get_contents() will only return the page contents, it will not execute any JavaScript on the page itself. The analog of this behaviour is almost equivalent to "View Page Source" in a browser.

Upvotes: 4

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