this article was originally published on Dev Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte II In the last article, we got introduced to web scraping and we looked into Goutte, a wonderful PHP web scraping library . In this article, we would be putting our knowledge to practice by scraping the website of the Punch . To be more specific, we would be scraping the punch to get the lastest news https://punchng....
this article was originally published on Dev Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte Today I would be talking about something very common, Web Scraping. Depending on your needs or a client’s needs, situations may arise when you may need to extract data from a webpage. What is Web Scraping ? According to WebHarvy, Web Scraping (also termed Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting etc.) is a technique employed to extract large amounts of data from websites....
this article was originally published on Medium Sending mails is one of the tasks that you would need to do at some point when building a web application in PHP . A quick google search would bring up one of the treasured open source packages for mail sending called PHPMailer . Now, don’t get me wrong . PHPMailer is very good at what it does as it offers more features than PHP’s default mail() function however it has some shortcomings;...