How to deal with bad url or html link in simple html dom parser
Simple html dom parser is truly a simple script to parse website data that you can quickly post into perhaps a mysql table. However, when you are parsing large amount of data the parser can come across urls that are bad or just non existent.
This creates an erorr “Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /simplehtmldom.php”
To fixed the problem
// Turn off all error reporting
error_reporting(0);
// Check if url exist.
// If not echo an error message or do nothing
if($html = file_get_html(‘http://caribbeantravel.org’) == ”) {
// echo something or do nothing
echo ”;
} else {
$html = file_get_html(‘http://caribbeantravel.org’);
echo ‘this one works’;
}
}
