PHP Html Dom/Parser

Question

i) I need to extract few elements from a html page using php.

ii) Am using html dom parser.

iii) I have been able to extract all **<a>**s, **<b>**s, **<li>**s, etc.

iv) How should I be able to extract elements of the type/enclosed within

**<td class = ""><a href = "">ABC</a></td>**

Anything using href, i.e. property of href

Note: I need to extract ABC

If you can extract the element, then you can just get the required attribute, e.g. `$link = $aElement.getAttribute('href')` — Aleks G, Jul 12 '11 at 11:52
@aleks G: that's what i wanted... I'll try right away...! thanx :) — gir3191, Jul 12 '11 at 11:53
This is sufficiently explained in the SimpleHtmlDocs: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm — Gordon, Jul 12 '11 at 11:57
*(related)* [Best Methods to parse HTML](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/best-methods-to-parse-html/3577662#3577662) — Gordon, Jul 12 '11 at 11:58
are you referring to this library? http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm — madflow, Jul 12 '11 at 11:53
Yes. the same... I am able to extract all links and using $link->href, displays the url, but not the anchor, if i mean right, i.e. within and ...! — gir3191, Jul 12 '11 at 11:58
In simplehtmldom, it has methods like $element-> innertext or $element-> plaintext etc. Have you looked into that ? — Andy, Sep 29 '17 at 17:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '12 at 04:35

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This might not be the answer you are looking for but, I have worked with phpquery before and found it to be a great tool to do that kind of work.

http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/

answered Feb 27 '12 at 04:35

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I'm pretty sure phpquery is unmaintained and buggy. I would use PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ – Petah Feb 27 '12 at 04:45

Starx · Answer 2 · 2012-02-27T04:59:12.730

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You will not get the entire structure using the DOM Parser.

You should use getAttribute() method for that purpose. Check here

Here is a simple example also

$markup = file_get_contents($someplace);
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom -> loadHTML($markup);
$tds = $dom -> getELementsByTagName("td");
foreach($tds as $td) {
    echo $td -> getAttribute("class");
}

edited Feb 27 '12 at 04:59

answered Feb 27 '12 at 04:42

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