What are some common methods in PHP for retrieving data from a website and displaying it dynamically?

To retrieve data from a website and display it dynamically in PHP, you can use methods such as cURL to fetch the data from a URL, parse the HTML content using libraries like Simple HTML DOM Parser, and then display the extracted data on your webpage. 

// Using cURL to fetch data from a website
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Parsing the HTML content using Simple HTML DOM Parser
include('simple_html_dom.php');
$html = str_get_html($data);

// Displaying the extracted data on your webpage
echo $html->find('title', 0)->plaintext; // Output the title of the webpage
echo $html->find('p', 1)->plaintext; // Output the second paragraph content

Keywords

Web scraping cURL DOMDocument SimpleXML JSON_decode

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