Getting Images from a Website to Create Gallery

[nz_mitch]

Hi there

 

We're trying to collect just the images from a website so we can show them as a gallery without the additional details on the standard page. The photos we need are the high res images which show up in a lightbox. The existing HTML looks like this:

 

<div id="photoBrowse" class="photos"> 
    <div class="photoLrge"> 
        <a class="fancybox primary" rel="photos" style="background-image:url(http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/024-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg);" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/023-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""> 
            <img src="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/024-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" /> 
        </a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/544/027-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/567/950-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/567/942-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/567/982-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/567/999-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/567/990-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/567/974-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/007-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/544/035-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/015-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/544/003-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/544/019-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/031-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a><a class="fancybox hidden" rel="photos" href="http://photos.harcourts.co.nz/011/568/047-MJ3563-Eversleigh-Road-Takapuna-North-Shore-City-Auckland-New-Zealand.jpg" title=""></a> 
    </div>     

 

I've tried do something like the following, but this is really beyond what I can figure out. Any help would be really appreciated:

include('simple_html_dom.php');
$url = "http://www.harcourts.co.nz/Property/View/MJ3563/38a-Eversleigh-Road";
$dom = file_get_html($url);
$testdiv = $dom->find('a.imageBrowse',0); // 0 for the first occurrence
$testdiv_contents = $testdiv->innertext;
echo '<pre>';
print_r($testdiv_contents);
echo '</pre>';

 

I've also tried something like this, based on the code available here:

function scraping_24() { // 
// get news block
$url = "http://www.harcourts.co.nz/Property/View/MJ3563/38a-Eversleigh-Road";
$html = file_get_html('http://www.harcourts.co.nz/Property/View/MJ3563/38a-Eversleigh-Road');
foreach($html->find('div.photoLrge') as $article) {
    // get image
    $item['photo'] = trim($article->find('a.fancybox', 0)->plaintext);
  
    $ret[] = $item;
}

// clean up memory
$html->clear();
unset($html);
return $ret;
}

 

I've tried to make sense of the PHP guide on DOM... I'm really sorry that I'm asking for help for something I have so little understanding of, but I've been at this for hours and I just can't crack it.

 

Thanks

Mitch

 

 

 

 

[V]

Hello! This forum has many experts, I however am sort of a noob but allow me to suggest something. First off have you considered using cURL? http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php  I use cURL to download thumbnail images from Youtube but I use the .jpg extension.  Also it might be easier if you retrive images from the website's slideshow image folder, if you have access to it via  HTTP