php - get a link's value

Question

I'm using php to get a part of a html file:

HTML file:

<div class="titles">
    <h2><a href="#">First Title</a></h2>
</div>

PHP file:

<?php
    include_once('simple_html_dom.php');
    $url = 'http://example.com';
    $html = file_get_html($url);
    $titles = $html->find('.titles');
    $heading = $titles->find('h2')[0];
    $link = $heading->find('a')[0];
    echo $link; 
    //result: <a href="#">First Title</a>
?>

How can I separately get the value of href and 'a' tag?

Because I want to save the title and link into the database,

I need '#' and 'First Title' not the 'a' tag.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '16 at 09:39

6

$link should be a Simple HTML Element object, of which you can access attributes using $link->href and the text contents as $link->plaintext. See http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm.

answered Jan 22 '16 at 09:39

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '16 at 09:53

U can use DOMDocument and DOMXpath object's (>=php5)

ref: http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php

part of sample code:

$html = '<div class="titles">
<h2><a href="#">First Title</a></h2>
</div>';


$page = new DOMDocument();
$page->loadHtml($html);

$xpath = new DOMXpath($page);
$a = $xpath->query("//a");

for ($i=0; $i < $a->length; $i++) {
    $_a = $a->item($i);

    echo  $_a->getAttribute("href");
    echo "<br>";
    echo  $_a->textContent;


}

php - get a link's value

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