Loop array for scrape

Question

I have an array with some values

$array = array("Bob","jim","frank","pat");

And i have some scrape code from simple html dom

$html = file_get_html('http://somesite.com?search=name');
//itteration and so on

I want to be able to give the url the values from the array one at a time so it will scrape the url with search=bob then go to search=jim and so on

I tried putting the file_get_html with the itterations and so on in a loop then use

foreach($array as $arrays){
$html = file_get_html('http://somesite.com?search=$arrays');
//more code
}

But this wont work, anyway to do this?

Side note: foreach($array as $arrayS) doesn't make sense, i would name it something like foreach($array as $name) :p — HamZa
– HamZa, Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 23:59

Martin · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-03 23:57:17Z

6

You need to use " instead of '. The double quotes allow variables to be used within a string. Alternatively use concatenation:

$html = file_get_html('http://somesite.com?search=' . $arrays);

answered Mar 3, 2013 at 23:57

Martin

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