QueryPath is a PHP library for manipulating XML and HTML. It is designed to work not only with local files, but also with web services and database resources.
My workaround for now is to call file_get_contents myself using the streamcontext and then pass that resource in to html5qp to get a querypath object with HTML5.
When trying to access an external resource via POST - apparently the html5qp function does not use the passed in stream context
$options = array( 'http' => array( 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'content' => $payload, ), ); $context = stream_context_create($options); $qp = html5qp($url, null, array('context' => $context));
The above code fails to open the resource - because the Masterminds HTML5 apparently tries to use a FileInputStream to grab the url.
When I switch to htmlqp the streamcontext is properly used and the code works.
I'm not sure if this is by design for HTML5 or if this is a bug - and if it is - whether it's an issue for QP or Masterminds\HTML5