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Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function find() on bool in C Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C on line 16

I get this error above, My code is as below. Anything wrong with my code? any help is appreciate. I’m not sure if it has something to do with the software im using to run it which is XAMPP Apache. I am currently trying to retrieve information from a web page with a product codes in an excel. I managed to run about 900+ product codes, but suddenly i am receiving this error above.

<?php
// example of how to use basic selector to retrieve HTML contents
include('simple_html_dom.php');

$file = fopen("Book1.csv","r");
$file2 = fopen("test.csv","w");
$links = [];

while (($result = fgetcsv($file)) !== false)
{
    $link = "https://mall/Product/".$result[0];
    $links[] = $link;

    $row_data = [];
    $page = file_get_html($link);
    $product_details = $page->find('.ProductDetailsTable tr'); //line 16
    if(count($product_details)==0) {
        $row_data[] = $result[0];
        $row_data[] = 'not found'; 
        fputcsv($file2, $row_data);
        continue;
    }

    //second method
    $article_number = '';
    $product_description = '';
    $product_family = '';
    $product_lifecycle = '';
    $plm_date = '';
    $notes = '';
    $EAN = '';
    $UPC = '';
    $country_of_origin = '';

    foreach($product_details as $table_row) {    
        if(count($table_row->find('td'))==1){
            //ignore
        } elseif(count($table_row->find('td'))==2) {
            $key = $table_row->find('td')[0]->plaintext;
            $value = $table_row->find('td')[1]->plaintext;
            if($key=="EAN") {
                $EAN = $value;
            }
            elseif($key=='Article Number (Market Facing Number)') {
                $article_number = $value;
            } elseif ($key=='Product Description') {
                $product_description = $value;
            } elseif ($key=='Product family') {
                $product_family = $value;
            }elseif ($key=='Product Lifecycle (PLM)') {
                $product_lifecycle = $value;
            }elseif ($key=='PLM Effective Date') {
                $plm_date = $value;
            }elseif ($key=='Notes') {
                $notes = $value;
            }elseif ($key=='UPC') {
                $UPC = $value;
            }elseif ($key=='Country of origin') {
                $country_of_origin = $value;
            }    
        } 
    }
    $row_data[] = trim($article_number);
    $row_data[] = trim($product_description);
    $row_data[] = trim($product_family);
    $row_data[] = trim($product_lifecycle);
    $row_data[] = trim($plm_date);
    $row_data[] = trim($notes);
    $row_data[] = trim($EAN);
    $row_data[] = trim($UPC);
    $row_data[] = trim($country_of_origin);
    fputcsv($file2, $row_data);
}

fclose($file);
fclose($file2);
echo 'done';

?>

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This happens because file_get_html() is returning a boolean (probably false due to some error like invalid url).

Your code is not checking against failures.

I suggest you adding something like:

if (!$page) {
  // Do some error handling, logging
  continue; // skip to next iteration on your loop.
}
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