parse.php

<?php
/**
* Albums Parser made by Vladyslav Gaysyuk <mr.mikield@gmail.com>
* Get Last 20 albums and store their info in database.
* Just add this file to cron for example for each 12h.
*
* Check it out :)
* My code also works with PHP7 version ^_^
*/

#declare(strict_types=1); #Enable PHP7

#Including needed files.
include 'vendor/autoload.php';
use PHPHtmlParser\Dom;

#Default URL to parse
$url = 'http://watchthedeer.com/photos.aspx';

#How much albums to get
$albumsGetCount = 20;

#Creating the DOM and getting last 20 albums
$html = new Dom();
$siteInnerHtml = $html->load($url);
$albums = $siteInnerHtml->getElementsbyTag('li')->toArray();
$albums = array_slice($albums, 0, $albumsGetCount);
#IF there are some albums
if (count($albums) >= 0) {

    //Adding DB instance
    $db = include 'DB.php';
    for ($i = 0; $i <= $albumsGetCount; $i++) {

        //$album = $albums[$i] ?? ''; #<--- Will work only in PHP7
        $album = (isset($albums[$i])) ? $albums[$i] : null; #This is for old version of PHP (PHP 5.6 f.e.)
        if (!is_null($album)) {

            //Write album info into database.
            $title = $album->find('a')->text;
            $link = str_replace('/photos.aspx', '', $url).str_replace('..', '', $album->find('a')->getAttribute('href'));
            $date = detectDate($album->find('a')->getAttribute('href'));
            $imagesCount = detectCount($album->find('a')->text);

            try {
                $db->insert('albums', [
                'title' => $title,
                'link'  => $link,
                'month' => $date,
                'count' => $imagesCount,
                ]);
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                #Log the error
                #The title is unique, so we will have severals errors with unique values when inserting data.
                r($e->getMessage());
            }
        }
    }
}

function detectDate($url)
{
    $url = urldecode($url);
    $dateString = str_replace('../looping_images/', '', $url);
    $dateString = str_replace('/viewer.aspx', '', $dateString);
    $dateStringArray = explode(' ', $dateString);
    foreach ($dateStringArray as $month) {
        return ($date = DateTime::createFromFormat('M', $month)) ? $date->format('m') : 0;
    }
}

function detectCount($title)
{
    preg_match("/\((.+) (pictures|images|images|pics)(.+|)\)/", $title, $titleArray);

    return (isset($titleArray[1])) ? $titleArray[1] : 0;
}