Getting link tag via DOMDocument - php

Question

I convert an atom feed into RSS using atom2rss.xsl. Works fine.
Then, using DOMDocument, I try to get the post title and URL:
$feed = new DOMDocument();
$feed->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>' . $html);
if (!empty($feed) && is_object($feed) ) {
foreach ($feed->getElementsByTagName("item") as $item){
echo 'url: '. $item->getElementsByTagName("link")->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo 'title'. $item->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue;
}
return;
}
But the post URL is empty.
See this eval which contains HTML. What am I doing wrong? I suspect I am not getting the link tag properly via $item->getElementsByTagName("link")->item(0)->nodeValue.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that there are several <link> elements in each item and the one (I think) your interested in is the one with rel="self" as an attribute. The quickest way (without messing around with XPath) is to loop over each <link> element checking for the right rel value and then take the href attribute from that...
if (!empty($feed) && is_object($feed) ) {
foreach ($feed->getElementsByTagName("item") as $item){
$url = "";
// Look for the 'right' link tag and extract URL from that
foreach ( $item->getElementsByTagName("link") as $link ) {
if ( $link->getAttribute("rel") == "self" ) {
$url = $link->getAttribute("href");
break;
}
}
echo 'url: '. $url;
echo 'title'. $item->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue;
}
return;
}
which gives...
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Answer 2

function get_links($link)
{
$ret = array();
$dom = new DOMDocument();
#$dom->loadHTML(file_get_contents($link));
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach ($links as $tag){
$ret[$tag->getAttribute('href')] = $tag->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue;
}
return $ret;
}
print_r(get_links('http://www.google.com'));
OR u can use DOMXpath
$html = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
#$dom->loadHTML($html);
// take all links
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/html/body//a");
for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {
$href = $hrefs->item($i);
$url = $href->getAttribute('href');
echo $url.'
';