Using domDocument, and parsing info, I would like to get the 'href' contents of an 'a' tag [duplicate]

Answer 1

You're mere inches away from the answer -- you've already extracted the <a> tags inside your foreach loop. You're grabbing all of them in a DOMNodeList, so each item in that list will be an instance of DOMElement, which has a method called getAttribute.

$a->item(0)->getAttribute('href') will contain the string value of the href attribute. Tada!

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It's possible that you might get an empty node list. You can work around this by checking that the first item in the list is an element.

$href = null;
$first_anchor_tag = $a->item(0);
if($first_anchor_tag instanceof DOMElement)
    $href = $first_anchor_tag->getAttribute('href');

Answer 2

echo $a->getAttributeNode('href')->nodeValue."<br />";