How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?
How can one parse HTML/XML and extract information from it?
html
PHP
XML-parsing
- asked 8 years ago
- B Butts
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Simple HTML DOM Parser
- A HTML DOM parser written in PHP 5+ that lets you manipulate HTML in a very easy way!
- Require PHP 5+.
- Supports invalid HTML.
- Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery.
- Extract contents from HTML in a single line.
- Download
Examples:
How to get HTML elements:
// Create DOM from URL or file
$html = file_get_html('http://www.example.com/');
// Find all images
foreach($html->find('img') as $element)
echo $element->src . '<br>';
// Find all links
foreach($html->find('a') as $element)
echo $element->href . '<br>';
How to modify HTML 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;
Extract content from HTML:
// Dump contents (without tags) from HTML
echo file_get_html('http://www.google.com/')->plaintext;
Scraping Slashdot:
// 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);
- answered 8 years ago
- Gul Hafiz
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