February 27, 2012
PHP Html Dom/Parser
Question by gir3191
i) I need to extract few elements from a html page using php.
ii) Am using html dom parser.
iii) I have been able to extract all **<a>**s, **<b>**s, **<li>**s, etc.
iv) How should I be able to extract elements of the type/enclosed within
**<td class = ""><a href = "">ABC</a></td>**
Anything using href, i.e. property of href
Note: I need to extract ABC
Answer by Starx
You will not get the entire structure using the DOM Parser.
You should use getAttribute() method for that purpose. Check here
Here is a simple example also
$markup = file_get_contents($someplace);
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom -> loadHTML($markup);
$tds = $dom -> getELementsByTagName("td");
foreach($tds as $td) {
echo $td -> getAttribute("class");
}
