Finding links matching given string in xpath/domdocument query

Question

Having issues getting links that match a given word to display using Xpath and domDocument. Everything seems to work up to where for($i=0;$i<$documentLinks->leng

Answer 1

You can fetch the href attribute directly via XPath

//ol/li[starts-with(@id, "stuff")]/a[contains(@href, "domain")]/@href

and then just do

foreach($result as $href){
    echo $href->nodeValue;
}

Note that contains function is case-sensitive though.

Answer 2

The line: $documentLinks = $e->getElementsByTagName('a')->item(0)->nodeValue;

should probably be: $documentLinks = $e->getElementsByTagName('a');

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$e->getElementsByTagName('a')

returns all children of $e whose tag is <a ...> which means that

$e->getElementsByTagName('a')->item(0);

is returning the first link under $e

and $documentLinks = $e->getElementsByTagName('a')->item(0)->nodeValue; is returning the text of that first link.

http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.getelementsbytagname.php