Problem with Simple HTML DOM Error Handling

1
votes

I have list of website which I am passing to function doScrape() this function creates SimpleHtmlDom object and load the url passed to it as a argument.

But when scraper is in progress one url can't be loaded and PHP throws following exception

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.somesite.com) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error in F:\xampp\htdocs\scraping\scraper\simple_html_dom.php on line 850

Due to this error entire scraper stops working. How to handle this exception and keep scraper running event there is an error.

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simple-html-dom

1 Answers

0
votes

You can do something like this:

$data = @file_get_contents(http://www.somesite.com);
if($data){
    //Ok
}else{
    //Error
}