I'm still working on this catalogue for a client, which loads images from a remote site via PHP and the Simple DOM Parser.
// Code excerpt from http://internetvolk.de/fileadmin/template/res/scrape.php, this is just one case of a select
$subcat = $_GET['subcat'];
$url = "http://pinesite.com/meubelen/index.php?".$subcat."&lang=de";
$html = file_get_html(html_entity_decode($url));
$iframe = $html->find('iframe',0);
$url2 = $iframe->src;
$html->clear();
unset($html);
$fullurl = "http://pinesite.com/meubelen/".$url2;
$html2 = file_get_html(html_entity_decode($fullurl));
$pagecount = 1;
$titles = $html2->find('.tekst');
$images = $html2->find('.plaatje');
$output='';
$i=0;
foreach ($images as $image) {
$item['title'] = $titles[$i]->find('p',0)->plaintext;
$imagePath = $image->find('img',0)->src;
$item['thumb'] = resize("http://pinesite.com".str_replace('thumb_','',$imagePath),array("w"=>225, "h"=>162));
$item['image'] = 'http://pinesite.com'.str_replace('thumb_','',$imagePath);
$fullurl2 = "http://pinesite.com/meubelen/prog/showpic.php?src=".str_replace('thumb_','',$imagePath)."&taal=de";
$html3 = file_get_html($fullurl2);
$item['size'] = str_replace(' ','',$html3->find('td',1)->plaintext);
unset($html3);
$output[] = $item;
$i++;
}
if (count($html2->find('center')) > 1) {
// ok, multi-page here, let's find out how many there are
$pagecount = count($html2->find('center',0)->find('a'))-1;
for ($i=1;$i<$pagecount; $i++) {
$startID = $i*20;
$newurl = html_entity_decode($fullurl."&beginrec=".$startID);
$html3 = file_get_html($newurl);
$titles = $html3->find('.tekst');
$images = $html3->find('.plaatje');
$a=0;
foreach ($images as $image) {
$item['title'] = $titles[$a]->find('p',0)->plaintext;
$item['image'] = 'http://pinesite.com'.str_replace('thumb_','',$image->find('img',0)->src);
$item['thumb'] = resize($item['image'],array("w"=>225, "h"=>150));
$output[] = $item;
$a++;
}
$html3->clear();
unset ($html3);
}
}
echo json_encode($output);
So what it should do (and does with some categories): Output the images, the titles and the the thumbnails from this page: http://pinesite.com
This works, for example, if you pass it a "?function=images&subcat=antiek", but not if you pass it a "?function=images&subcat=stoelen". I don't even think it's a problem with the remote page, so there has to be an error in my code.
Ehm..trying to state the obvious maybe but 'stoele'?
As it turns out, my code was completely fine, it was a missing space in the HTML of the remote site that got the Simple PHP DOM Parser to not recognize the iframe I was looking for. I fixed it on my end by running a str_replace on the code first to replace the faulty code.
I know it's a dirty solution, but it works :)