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book_details.html : entry point, with only SSI (Server Side Include) statements

book_details.php : the PHP server side code does the data doing accross the internet

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

class product {
 	public  $mURL;
	public $details = array('ISBN10' => "1234", 'ISBN13' => "", 'Weight' => "", 'Dimensions' => "", 'CurPrice' => "");

function product($url) {
		$this->mURL = $url;

//	$contents = file_get_contents($url);	// the use of cURL functions (for security) but I don't have them installed'

//	$contents = file_get_contents("http://192.168.1.40/TestPHP/fetch_html.php?url=$url");
//	$contents = file_get_contents("http://google.com");

// NOTICE: Amazon seems to now block the action of getting page content as above (non browser-Javascript based)
// therefore the following temporary work-around, for demostration purposes ...
$contents = file_get_contents('cached_book_page.txt');
	$contents= preg_replace('/[[:^print:]]/', '', $contents);  // remove all non-printable characters
	//print $contents;

//print "passed: " . $this->mURL;
//	 	preg_match('/class="priceLarge">(.*)</', $contents, $match);
	 	preg_match('/class=".* header-price">(.*?)</', $contents, $match);
		$this->details['CurPrice'] = trim($match[1]);

// narrow the string down to the 'Product Details' section
		preg_match('/Product Details(.*)/' , $contents, $match);
		$stpos = stripos($contents, "<h2>Product Details<");
		$endpos = strpos($contents, "<table", $stpos+1);
		$prodetails = substr($contents, $stpos, $endpos-$stpos);
	 	//print_r ($match);
	 	//print "st: $stpos  end: $endpos <br/>" . $prodetails;

preg_match('/ISBN-10:.*?>(.*?)</', $prodetails, $match);
		$this->details['ISBN10'] = $match[1];
		preg_match('/ISBN-13:.*?>(.*?)</', $prodetails, $match);
		$this->details['ISBN13'] = $match[1];
		preg_match('/Weight:[^>]*>([^<\(]*)/', $prodetails, $match);
		$this->details['Weight'] = $match[1];
		preg_match('/Dimensions:[^>]*>([^<\(]*)/', $prodetails, $match);
		$this->details['Dimensions'] = $match[1];

}
}

//$bookURL = "http://www.amazon.com/Biology-MasteringBiology-8th-Neil-Campbell/dp/0321543254/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233281929&sr=8-1";
$bookURL = "http://www.amazon.com/Biology-MasteringBiology-8th-Neil-Campbell/dp/0321543254";

print "<h1><center>Book Details</center></h1>";
print "This page : <small><font color='blue'>$bookURL</font></small><br/>";
print "was scraped for book details inbedded within it... Results:<br/>";

$book = new product($bookURL);

//echo "<p>   mURL: " . $book->mURL . "<br/>";
//var_dump ($book->details);

print "<p>ISBN10: " . $book->details['ISBN10'] . "</p>";
print "<p>ISBN13: " . $book->details['ISBN13'] . "</p>";
print "<p>Weight: {$book->details['Weight']}  </p>";
print "<p>Dimensions: {$book->details['Dimensions']}  </p>";
echo "<p>CurPrice: {$book->details['CurPrice']}  </p>";

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