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I try to scrape the content post of this forum https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3424996 using below code.
$rows = $html->find('.post_table');
$array = array();
foreach($rows as $go){
$post_text = $go->find('.post_td_right > .post_text')->innertext;
$array[]= array(
'content'=> $post_text
);
}
echo json_encode($array);
I var_dump($rows) and it's an object, I really don't know why is the mistake. Need your help!

Answer 1

Forums usually have an RSS feed to help with this sort of requirement. Turns out, the site you're scraping supplies this for you: http://rss.forum.lowyat.net/topic/3424996
We can now use an XML parser instead of a DOM scraper, which will be much more efficient. For example;
<?php
$rss = file_get_contents('http://rss.forum.lowyat.net/topic/3424996'); //Or use cURL
$xml = simplexml_load_string($rss);
$array = array();
foreach($xml->channel->item as $posts) {
$post = (array) $posts->description;
$array[] = htmlentities($post[0]);
}
echo "<pre>";
echo print_r($array);
echo "</pre>";