Load a webpage as a .txt
file and strip specific information.
Call a built-in php
function. We'll use Home Hardware as an example. I'll use a get
method for the SKU or ITEM Number to test a number of SKUs.
$txt = file_get_contents("https://www.homehardware.ca/en/p/".$_GET['sku']);
Load up the URL requested above with a SKU or ITEM Number to view the txt. Or simply print_r
the results to get the exact information you require.
In this case, I already know the required HTML txt to get specific information.
$productName = get_string_between($txt, '<h1 class="productdetails-title">','</h1>');
$productBrand = get_string_between($txt, 'class="product-brand">','</a>');
$productNumber = get_string_between($txt, '<li>Item: # ','</li>');
$productModel = get_string_between($txt, '<li>Model: # ','</li>');
$productImage = get_string_between($txt, 'data-image="', '"');
This function was not written by me -- there are many variations online. It's very simple; the function will look through the txt file (or in this case, converted to a string) and return the text in between the starting and ending text specified above.
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
$string = " ".$string;
$ini = strpos($string,$start);
if ($ini == 0)
return "";
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}
echo '<h1>'.$productName.'</h1>';
echo '<div>'.$productBrand.'</div>';
echo '<div>'.$productNumber.'</div>';
echo '<div>'.$productModel.'</div>';
echo '<div><img src="'.$productImage.'"/></div>';