simple-html-dom

SimpleHtmldom can be used to extract the contents of the first element with class description . $html = str_get_html($html); $html->find('.description', 0) However if this class does not exist, PHP will throw an error Trying to get property of non-object I tried if(!isset($html->find('.description', 0))) { echo 'not set'; } and if(!empty($html->find('.description', 0))) { echo 'not set'; } but both gives the error Can't use method return value in write context What is the proper way to check if the element exist? if(($html->find('.description', 0))) { echo 'set'; }else{ echo 'not set'; } http:

I'm trying to use simple html dom to extract elements from a file that looks like this. The file has several tables that look the same class=sometable . Each table has a few <tr class=sometr> . Then inside each tr, I have th that has the title, and a td that has a category. What I want to extract is all titles class=title and their corresponding category number class=category for all table rows in all tables. I've loaded the file in $html . Can someone tell me what I'm supposed to find after that? I've tried even $collection = $html->find('tr'); and did a vardump on the collection but got

I am looking at getting the plain text from html. Which one should I choose, php strip_tags or simplehtmldom plaintext extraction? One pro for simplehtmldom is support of invalid html, is that sufficient in itself? You should probably use smiplehtmldom for the reason you mentioned and that strip_tags may also leave you non-text elements like javascript or css contained within script/style blocks You would also be able to filter text from elements that aren't displayed (inline style=display:none) That said, if the html is simple enough, then strip_tags may be faster and will accomplish the same

I'm using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to scrape some data of a webshop (also running XAMPP 1.7.2 with PHP5.3.0), and I'm running into problems with <tbody> tag. The structure of the table is, essentialy (details aren't really that important): <table> <thead> <!--text here--> </thead> <tbody> <!--text here--> </tbody> </table> Now, I'm trying to get to the <tbody> section by using code: $element = $html->find('tbody',0)->innertext; It doesn't throw any errors, it just prints nothing out when I try to echo it. I've tested the code on other elements, <thead> , <table> , even something like <span

I am using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ to fetch data like Page Title, Meta Description and Meta Tags from other domains and then insert it into database. But I have some issues with encoding. The problem is that I do not get correct characters from those website which is not in English Language. Below is the code: <?php require 'init.php'; $curl = new curl(); $html = new simple_html_dom(); $page = $_GET['page']; $curl_output = $curl->getPage($page); $html->load($curl_output['content']); $meta_title = $html->find('title', 0)->innertext; print $meta_title . "

I was searching like mad and found no solution. The problem is simple. Let's say I have 3 DIVs: <div class="class1"> <div class="subclass"> TEXT1 </div> </div> <div class="class2"> <div class="subclass"> TEXT2 </div> </div> <div class="class1 class2"> <div class="subclass"> TEXT3 </div> </div> So, very simple. I just want to find the TEXT3, which has BOTH class1 and class2. Using Simple HTML DOM Parser, I can't seem to get it to work. Here's what I tried: foreach($html->find("[class=class1], [class=class2]") as $item) { $items[] = $item->find('.subclass', 0)->plaintext; } The problem is, with