How to imitate child selector with Simple HTML DOM?

Question

Fellas!

I have one nasty page to parse but can\'t figure out how to extract correct data blocks from it using Simple HTML DOM, because it has no CSS child selector suppo

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and used the children method to grab just the first level items.

    

        Some Text
        

            
Some Inner Text
            
Some Inner Text
            
Some Inner Text
            
Some Inner Text
        
    
    

        Some Text
        

            
Some Inner Text
            
Some Inner Text
            
Some Inner Text
            
Some Inner Text
        
    

And here's the Simple HTML Dom code to get just the first level li items:

$html = file_get_html( $url );
$first_level_items = $html->find( '.my-list', 0)->children();

foreach ( $first_level_items as $item ) {
    ... do stuff ...
}