code to get text, href, etc data from any webpage using simple_html_dom in php

get-html-from-any-webpage.php

<?php
    $pageURL = "http://www.google.com";        //replace with the url of page you wanna access
    require("simple_html_dom.php");            //download simple_html_dom parser from here: "http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/" and put it in the same location as this .php file
	$html = file_get_html($pageURL);
	foreach($html->find('a[class=xyz]') as $element){  //replace a[class=xyz] with the elemets you want to get, read here for more info: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm
		echo $element->href . '<br>';             //display the href just for testing purposes
	}                                           //$element is an object with all the attributes of all matching elements according to your selector, do whatever you want with it.

// if getting this error: Warning: file_get_contents(): stream does not support seeking in simple_html_dom.php on line 76,
//On line 76 of simple_html_dom.php: 
//  $contents = file_get_contents($url, $use_include_path, $context, $offset);
//Remove the reference to $offset:
//  $contents = file_get_contents($url, $use_include_path, $context);
//see here for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42685814/file-get-contents-stream-does-not-support-seeking-when-was-php-behavior-abo
?>