Sunra\PhpSimple\HtmlDomParser doesn't work on PHP 7.4.29

[rdmpage]

Sunra\PhpSimple\HtmlDomParser doesn't work on more recent versions of PHP (e.g., 7.4.29) throwing regular expression compilation errors. This is a know bug (see e.g. sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser#87) and there is at least one pull request to fix it (e.g., sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser#88) but looks like development has basically stopped so I can't simply update composer.json.

[rdmpage]

Fix is to remove from composer.json and add relevant files to repository:

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+-- HtmlDomParser.php
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+--simplehtmldom_1_5
   |
   +-- simple_html_dom.php

Then patch simple_html_dom.php. To include the class we simply:

require_once (dirname(__FILE__) . '/HtmlDomParser.php');

This loads the patched version of the code.

[rdmpage]

Fixed with c1fb32b