PHP way of parsing HTML string

Question

I have a php string that contains the below HTML I am retrieving from an RSS feed. I am using simple pie and cant find any other way of splitting these two datasets it gets from <description>. If anyone knows of a way in simple pie to select children that would be great.

<div style="example"><div style="example"><img title="example" alt="example" src="example.jpg"/></div><div style="example">EXAMPLE TEXT</div></div>

to:

$image = '<img title="example" alt="example" src="example.jpg">';
$description = 'EXAMPLE TEXT';

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7124823/file-get-html-displays-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function — merrais, Mar 10 '17 at 22:30

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '11 at 17:24

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$received_str = 'Your received html';

$html = str_get_html($received_str);

//Image tag
$img_tag = $html->find("img", 0)->outertext;

//Example Text
$example_text = $html->find('div[style=example]', 0)->last_child()->innertext;

See Here: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm

answered May 21 '11 at 17:24

Sadat

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Just tested "Simple html DOM" and is not reliable on large files. In my case I've gor a file with 2800 divs inside and want to cycle among them but only first 21 occurrences were found.... – Power Engineering Jan 28 '20 at 16:35

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '11 at 16:44

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Try Simple HTML Dom Parser

// Create DOM from HTML string
$html = str_get_html('Your HTML here');

// Find all images 
foreach($html->find('img') as $element) 
       echo $element->src . '<br>';

// Description
$description = $html->find('div[style=example]');

answered May 21 '11 at 16:44

Naveed

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`div[style=example]` matches three nodes. – Lightness Races in Orbit May 21 '11 at 17:35

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 02 '20 at 10:03

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try using strip_tags:

<?php
    $html ='<div style="example"><div style="example"><img title="example" alt="example" src="example.jpg"/></div><div style="example">EXAMPLE TEXT</div></div>';
    $html = strip_tags($html,'<img>');
    // $html == '<img title="example" alt="example" src="example.jpg">'
?>

edited Mar 02 '20 at 10:03

toshniba

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answered May 21 '11 at 17:28

The Mask

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PHP way of parsing HTML string

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