When scraping content using the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser it is useful to resolve relative URLs in a page to absolute URLs for downloading additional web pages or images. I do this using the url_to_absolute library by Nadeau Software Consulting and show how to do this here, along with a minor fix which needs to be done to their code.
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