Web scraping with PHP and HTML DOM Parser - php

Question

I'm trying to scrape the site inside the code but I would it in table format.
$url='http://www.arbworld.net/en/moneyway';
libxml_use_internal_errors( true );
$dom=new DOMDocument;
$dom->validateOnParse=false;
$dom->recover=true;
$dom->strictErrorChecking=false;
$dom->loadHTMLFile( $url );
libxml_clear_errors();
$xp=new DOMXPath( $dom );
$col=$xp->query('//table[#class="grid"]/tr[#class="belowHeader"]/td');
if( $col->length > 0 ){
foreach( $col as $node )echo $node->textContent;
}
Now the output is this:
Romanian Liga I22.Dec 18:00:00 FCSBUniversitat2.063.33.999.9 %€ 2070.1
%€ 00 %€ 0€ 207 22.Dec 18:00:00 Italian Serie A22.Dec 11:30:00
AtalantaAC Milan1.8844.499.7 %€ 21 5580.1 %€ 170.2 %€ 46€ 21 622
22.Dec 11:30:00 English League 221.Dec 15:0
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Answer 1

You should retrieve the rows instead of the columns (without the /td at the end), then simply put everything into an HTML table, with one <tr> for each row:
<?php
// your current code
$xp = new DOMXPath($dom);
$rows = $xp->query('//table[#class="grid"]/tr[#class="belowHeader"]');
?>
<table>
<tbody>
<?php foreach ($rows as $row): ?>
<tr>
<?php foreach ($row->childNodes as $col): ?>
<?php if ($col->getAttribute('style') !== 'display:none'): ?>
<?php foreach ($col->childNodes as $colPart): ?>
<?php if ($colText = trim($colPart->textContent)): ?>
<td><?= $colText ?></td>
<?php elseif ($colPart instanceof DOMElement && $colPart->tagName === 'a'): ?>
<?php
$href = $colPart->getAttribute('href');
if (strpos($href, 'javascript') !== 0):
?>
<td><?= $colPart->getAttribute('href') ?></td>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</tr>
<?php endforeach ?>
</tbody>
</table>