PHP HTML DOM PARSER

Description, Requirement & Features

• A HTML DOM parser written in PHP5+ let you manipulate HTML in a very easy way!
• Require PHP 5+.
• Supports invalid HTML.
• Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery.
• Extract contents from HTML in a single line.

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How to get HTML Element
// Create DOM from URL or file
$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');

// Find all images
foreach($html->find('img') as $element)
       echo $element->src . '<br>';

// Find all links
foreach($html->find('a') as $element)
       echo $element->href . '<br>';

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How to modify HTML element

// Create DOM from string
$html = str_get_html('<div id="hello">Hello</div><div id="world">World</div>');

$html->find('div', 1)->class = 'bar';

$html->find('div[id=hello]', 0)->innertext = 'foo';

echo $html; // Output: <div id="hello">foo</div><div id="world" class="bar">World</div>

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Extract Content from HTML
// Dump contents (without tags) from HTML
echo file_get_html('http://www.google.com/')->plaintext;

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Scrapping Slashdot
// Create DOM from URL
$html = file_get_html('http://slashdot.org/');

// Find all article blocks
foreach($html->find('div.article') as $article) {
    $item['title']     = $article->find('div.title', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['intro']    = $article->find('div.intro', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['details'] = $article->find('div.details', 0)->plaintext;
    $articles[] = $item;
}

print_r($articles);

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Sample uses
// Include the library
include('simple_html_dom.php');

// Retrieve the DOM from a given URL
$html = file_get_html('http://davidwalsh.name/');

// Find all "A" tags and print their HREFs
foreach($html->find('a') as $e)
    echo $e->href . '<br>';

// Retrieve all images and print their SRCs
foreach($html->find('img') as $e)
    echo $e->src . '<br>';

// Find all images, print their text with the "<>" included
foreach($html->find('img') as $e)
    echo $e->outertext . '<br>';

// Find the DIV tag with an id of "myId"
foreach($html->find('div#myId') as $e)
    echo $e->innertext . '<br>';

// Find all SPAN tags that have a class of "myClass"
foreach($html->find('span.myClass') as $e)
    echo $e->outertext . '<br>';

// Find all TD tags with "align=center"
foreach($html->find('td[align=center]') as $e)
    echo $e->innertext . '<br>';
   
// Extract all text from a given cell
echo $html->find('td[align="center"]', 1)->plaintext.'<br><hr>';