array(
'limit' => array(
'name' => 'Posts limit',
'type' => 'number',
'title' => 'Maximum number of items to return',
'defaultValue' => 5
)
)
);
public function collectData(){
$limit = $this->getInput('limit');
$latest = getSimpleHTMLDOM('https://explosm.net/comics/latest');
$image = $latest->find('div[id=comic]', 0)->find('img', 0)->getAttribute('src');
$date_string = $latest->find('p[class*=Author__P]', 0)->innertext;
$next_data_string = $latest->find('script[id=__NEXT_DATA__]', 0)->innertext;
$exp = '/{\\\"latest\\\":\[{\\\"slug\\\":\\\"(.*?)\\ /';
$reg_array = array();
preg_match($exp, $next_data_string, $reg_array);
$comic_id = $reg_array[1];
$comic_id = substr($comic_id, 0, strpos($comic_id, '\\'));
$item = array();
$item['uri'] = $this::URI . 'comics/' . $comic_id;
$item['uid'] = $this::URI . 'comics/' . $comic_id;
$item['title'] = 'Comic for ' . $date_string;
$item['timestamp'] = strtotime($date_string);
$item['author'] = $latest->find('p[class*=Author__P]', 2)->innertext;
$item['content'] = '
';
$this->items[] = $item;
$next_comic = substr($this::URI, 0, -1)
. $latest->find('div[class*=MainComic__Selector]', 0)->find('a', 0)->getAttribute('href');
// use index 1 as the latest comic was already found
for ($i = 1; $i <= $limit; $i++) {
$this_comic = getSimpleHTMLDOM($next_comic);
$image = $this_comic->find('div[id=comic]', 0)->find('img', 0)->getAttribute('src');
$date_string = $this_comic->find('p[class*=Author__P]', 0)->innertext;
$item = array();
$item['uri'] = $next_comic;
$item['uid'] = $next_comic;
$item['title'] = 'Comic for ' . $date_string;
$item['timestamp'] = strtotime($date_string);
$item['author'] = $this_comic->find('p[class*=Author__P]', 2)->innertext;
$item['content'] = '';
$this->items[] = $item;
$next_comic = substr($this::URI, 0, -1)
. $this_comic->find('div[class*=MainComic__Selector]', 0)->find('a', 0)->getAttribute('href'); // get next comic link
}
}
}