Simple HTML DOM Parser

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http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
https://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.io/manual_api.htm


select with multiple css

//when 
[url='g.com']test[/url]

//parse 
$html->find('a.jobLink.jobInfoItem.jobTitle', 0)->innertext; //gives test
$html->find('a.jobLink.jobInfoItem.jobTitle', 0)->href;

 

select element then class

//when
<div class="snapshot-item"><i class="fa fa-building-o">test[/I]

//parse
$html->find('div.snapshot-item fa-building-o', 0)->innertext; //gives test;

 

select element then element

//when
<div class="snapshot-item"><i class="fa fa-building-o">test[/I][url='#']LABEL[/url]

//parse
$html->find('div.snapshot-item a', 0)->plaintext; //gives LABEL

 

check if exists

//when
<li class="next">[url='g.com']test[/url]

//parse
$h = $html->find('li.next>a', 0);

if ($h != null ) {
    echo $html->find('li.next>a', 0)->href
}

 

use of prev_sibling / hasAttribute / getAttribute

foreach($html->find('div.-item.-job') as $article) {

	$g = $article->prev_sibling();

	if ($g!=null)
		if ($g->hasAttribute("class"))
			if ($g->getAttribute("class") == "secondary-job-results-identifier" )
				break;
	.
	.
}

 

get elements

// Create DOM from URL or file
$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');

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

// Find all links 
foreach($html->find('a') as $element) 
       echo $element->href . '<br>';

 

modify elements

// Create DOM from string
$html = str_get_html('<div id="hello">Hello</div><div id="world">World</div>');

$html->find('div', 1)->class = 'bar';

$html->find('div[id=hello]', 0)->innertext = 'foo';

echo $html; // Output: <div id="hello">foo</div><div id="world" class="bar">World</div>

 

extracting elements

// Create DOM from URL
$html = file_get_html('http://slashdot.org/');

// Find all article blocks
foreach($html->find('div.article') as $article) {
    $item['title']     = $article->find('div.title', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['intro']    = $article->find('div.intro', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['details'] = $article->find('div.details', 0)->plaintext;
    $articles[] = $item;
}

print_r($articles);

In some page, SSL no working ?? - https://stackoverflow.com/a/12446906/1320686

DOM Parser for PHP7 - https://github.com/paquettg/php-html-parser

PHP built-in - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/php/php_dom_parser_example.htm