Simple HTML Dom - Fatal error when using load_file

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I'm trying to parse an HTML file that has terrible (believe me, it is) HTML structure and because of this and my lack of knowledge, I couldn't write my own parser. Later I tried using Simple HTML Dom parser, because a lot of people (on SO as well) recommend it.

I required the simple_html_dom.php, then created the object. They seem to work, the require() function returns "1" and var_dump()-ing the object returns an object.

After this I tried to load the URL as it was done in the manual, but I got a fatal error, no matter what URL I tried. The error was the following:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in 
             /home/fema/web/subdomain/devel/www_root/parser/
             simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php on line 988

I checked what's on line 988 and it is the following:

// Have php try to detect the encoding from the text given to us.
        $charset = mb_detect_encoding($this->root->plaintext . "ascii", 
                   $encoding_list = array( "UTF-8", "CP1252" ) );

I understand that this is about character encoding, but that's all. I haven't found anything about this neither with google or on SO.

My whole code is (placeholder URL):

<?php

require('simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php');

// Create a DOM object
$dom = new simple_html_dom();

$dom->load_file('http://www.google.com/');

?>

Could anyone please tell me what to do? Or some kind of advice when something like this happens.

Thanks in advance.

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3 Answers

Remove the trailing forward slash (/) in your URL string provided in the load_file() method and it works.
Apparently, the load_file() method of the Simple HTML DOM Library has an issue with forward slashes being appended to the end of a URL string.

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