I am trying to parse through the current page so that i can get the attribute of the embed tag.

The below works fine if i give a url, but instead of giving an url, i would like to parse the current page and then get the value of embed.

Also, this code is being used in a smarty template and there is a variable defined for the current url.

I tried with the variable name, but i got this error

"Call to a member function get_template_vars() on a non-object"

Can anyone help?

FYI - i am not an expert in php, so plz go easy on me.

PHP Code:

$url="http://www.xxxxx.com";

$html = file_get_contents($url);

$doc = new DOMDocument();
@$doc->loadHTML($html);

$tags = $doc->getElementsByTagName('embed');

foreach ($tags as $tag) {
       echo $tag->getAttribute('src');
} 


use the 'REQUEST_URI' server variable.

this is what i used in the template

PHP Code:

{php}
$url=$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
$html = file_get_contents($url);
$doc = new DOMDocument();
@$doc->loadHTML($html);
$tags = $doc->getElementsByTagName('embed');

foreach ($tags as $tag) {
       echo $tag->getAttribute('src');
}

{/php} 


and i got this error

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.abc.com/videos/ventuno/zx...4db2345f0.html) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/videos/Smarty/templates_c/%%AB^AB9^AB983520%%detailheader.tpl.php on line 17

Find where the HTML entities are from and remove them.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Find where the HTML entities are from and remove them.

i dont understand and i dont know. my knowledge of php is very limited.
More help chris. Thanks.

are "zxczczxcz-video_4db2345f0" and "/templates_c/%%AB^AB9^AB983520%%detailheader" part of the actual URIs or is it something from a rewrite?

are "zxczczxcz-video_4db2345f0"

part of the final url structure
http://www.sitename.com/videos/usern..._uniqueid.html

/templates_c/%%AB^AB9^AB983520%%detailheader

this is the smarty template cache thing

You can use output buffering http://php.net/manual/en/book.outcontrol.php

You then create a custom function and use it as the callback parameter to evaluate the output string of the page.

hmm... i guess i might need some professional help on this. Its beyond my grasp

Got this fixed Thanks guys