Hi I'm new to dom parsing on php:
I have an html file that I'm trying to parse. It has a bunch of div's like this:
<div id="interestingbox">
<div id="interestingdetails" class="txtnormal">
<div>Content1</div>
<div>Content2</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="interestingbox">
......
I'm trying to get the contents of the many div boxes using php. How can I use the DOM parser to do this?
Thanks!!!
I got this to work using simplehtmldom as a start:
$html = file_get_html('example.com');
foreach ($html->find('div[id=interestingbox]') as $result)
{
echo $result->innertext;
}
First i have to tell you that you can't use the same id on two different divs; there are classes for that point. Every element should have an unique id.
Code to get the contents of the div with id="interestingbox"
$html = '
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="interestingbox">
<div id="interestingdetails" class="txtnormal">
<div>Content1</div>
<div>Content2</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="interestingbox2"><a href="#">a link</a></div>
</body>
</html>';
$dom_document = new DOMDocument();
$dom_document->loadHTML($html);
//use DOMXpath to navigate the html with the DOM
$dom_xpath = new DOMXpath($dom_document);
// if you want to get the div with id=interestingbox
$elements = $dom_xpath->query("*/div[@id='interestingbox']");
if (!is_null($elements)) {
foreach ($elements as $element) {
echo "\n[". $element->nodeName. "]";
$nodes = $element->childNodes;
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
echo $node->nodeValue. "\n";
}
}
}
//OUTPUT
[div] {
Content1
Content2
}
Example with classes:
$html = '
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div class="interestingbox">
<div id="interestingdetails" class="txtnormal">
<div>Content1</div>
<div>Content2</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="interestingbox"><a href="#">a link</a></div>
</body>
</html>';
//the same as before.. just change the xpath
[...]
$elements = $dom_xpath->query("*/div[@class='interestingbox']");
[...]
//OUTPUT
[div] {
Content1
Content2
}
[div] {
a link
}
Refer to the DOMXPath page for more details.