Scraper for transfermarkt

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<?php
include_once('../simple_html_dom.php');

function scraping($url) {
    // create HTML DOM
    $html = file_get_html($url);

    
    // Find the table that has class="tabelle_spieler" in the source code
    // There are two of these tables and we want the second one therefor 1 (index start by 0)
    $table = $html->find('.tabelle_spieler',1);


    // Go through each <tr> in the table
    $array_of_tr = $table->find('tr');

    foreach($array_of_tr as $row){

        // echo "\n"; // Print newline
        // Go through each <td> inside the <tr>
        echo $row->find('td',1)->plaintext."\n";

    }
    

	$transfer_table = $html->find('.standard_tabelle',1);
	echo gettype($transfer_table);
	$all_trs = $transfer_table->find('tr');

	$index_to_show = array(0,1,3,5);
	
	echo "\n\nTransfer History";
	foreach($all_trs as $tr){
		foreach($tr->find('td') as $index => $td){
			if(in_array($index, $index_to_show))
			echo str_replace("&nbsp;","",$td->plaintext)." - ";
		}
		echo "\n";

	}

    // Clean up memory
    $html->clear();
    unset($html);
}


// Run the function
scraping('http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/marcus-hahnemann/transfers/spieler_4140.html');