How to parse actual HTML from page using CURL?

Question

I am \"attempting\" to scrape a web page that has the following structures within the page:

    stuff here
          


        

Answer 1

you might want to take a look at phpQuery for doing server-side HTML parsing things. basic example

Answer 2

You can pass a node to DOMDocument::saveXML(). Try this:

$printString = $newDom->saveXML($sections->item($i));

Answer 3

According to comments on the PHP manual on DOM, you should use the following inside your loop:

    $tmp_dom = new DOMDocument();
    $tmp_dom->appendChild($tmp_dom->importNode($sections->item($i), true));
    $innerHTML = trim($tmp_dom->saveHTML()); 

This will set $innerHTML to be the HTML content of the node.

But I think what you really want is to get the 'a' nodes under the 'p' node, so do this:

$sections = $newDom->getElementsByTagName('p');
$nodeNo = $sections->length;
for($i=0; $i<$nodeNo; $i++) {
    $sec = $sections->item($i);
    $links = $sec->getElementsByTagName('a');
    $linkNo = $links->length;
    for ($j=0; $j<$linkNo; $j++) {
        $printString = $links->item($j)->nodeValue;
        echo $printString . "<br>";
    }
}

This will just print the body of each link.