Mechanize and BeautifulSoup for PHP?

Question

I was wondering if there was anything similar like Mechanize or BeautifulSoup for PHP?

Answer 1

SimpleTest provides you with similar functionality:

http://www.lastcraft.com/browser_documentation.php

Answer 2

I don't know how powerful BeautifulSoup is, so maybe this won't be as great ; but you could try using DOMDocument::loadHTML :

The function parses the HTML contained in the string source . Unlike loading XML, HTML does not have to be well-formed to load.

After using this, you should be able to access the HTML document using DOM methods -- including XPath queries.

Answer 3

Don't know about BeautifulSoup, but there is phpquery which is similar to jquery

$doc = phpQuery::newDocument('<div/>');

$doc['div']->append('<ul></ul>');
$doc['div ul'] = '<li>1</li><li>2</li><li>3</li>';

$doc['ul > li:last'] = 'hello';