Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in /home/admin/web//public_html/index.php on line 14

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PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in /home/admin/web//public_html/index.php on line 14

Why does it fail?

include("simple_html_dom.php");

$html = file_get_html('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/facebook');

$title = $html->find('h1[id=firstHeading]',0)->innertext; 

echo $title;

$html var is not an object. check what file_get_html returns! — BenRoob, Jul 09 '17 at 14:18
Different page works; example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apple — xeuy, Jul 09 '17 at 14:25
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16579258/php-get-contents-of-webpage/16579511#16579511 for a possible reason — Barmar, Jul 09 '17 at 14:37
Simple HTML DOM's default size limit is 600K, that page is 800K. Increase the limit as described in the linked question. — Barmar, Jul 09 '17 at 14:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '17 at 14:32

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I am not familiar with file_get_html but it probably returns false on errors, so you should check the returned value:

if ($html === false) {
   // check what the error is (look for file_get_html documentation to understand how to get more info on the error
} else {
   // file is ok, process it
}

answered Jul 09 '17 at 14:32

Danny Yeshurun

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`file_get_html()` is part of the popular Simple HTML DOM parser library. – Barmar Jul 09 '17 at 14:38

Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in /home/admin/web//public_html/index.php on line 14

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