Goutte - Get table column - php

Question

how can I get just one column not whole table?
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="Center" rules="all" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Entity Name</td>
<td>NV Business ID</td>
<td>Status</td>
<td>Type</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GOOGLE</td>
<td></td>
<td>Expired</td>
<td>Reserved Name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GOOGLE INC.</td>
<td>NV20161275322</td>
<td>Active</td>
<td>Foreign Corporation
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Here is my try:
$client = new Client();
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'url');
$form = $crawler->selectButton('Search')->form();
$crawler = $client->submit($form, array(
...
));
$crawler->filter('table tr')->each(function ($node) {
print $node->text()."\n \n";
// print $node->filter('td')->text() . '<br />';
});
It's always returning whole table.
Also tried stn like tr[1], etc..
Can someone help please?
Thanks

Answer 1

I found a solution:
$node->filter('td')->eq(2)->text();
2 means third column, because it's [0,1,2,...]

Answer 2

You can use DOMDocument for getting data from HTML.
PHP code demo
<?php
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
$html = '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="Center" rules="all" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Entity Name</td>
<td>NV Business ID</td>
<td>Status</td>
<td>Type</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GOOGLE</td>
<td></td>
<td>Expired</td>
<td>Reserved Name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GOOGLE INC.</td>
<td>NV20161275322</td>
<td>Active</td>
<td>Foreign Corporation
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>';
$result=array();
$object= new DOMDocument();
$object->loadHTML($html);
$requiredColumn=3;
$requiredColumn--;
foreach($object->getElementsByTagName("tr") as $value)
{
$nodelistObject=$value->getElementsByTagName("td");
$columnCounter=0;
foreach($nodelistObject as $tdNode)
{
if($columnCounter==$requiredColumn)
{
if($tdNode->getElementsByTagName("a")->length==0)
{
$result[]=$tdNode->textContent;
}
foreach($tdNode->getElementsByTagName("a") as $aElement)
{
$result[]=$aElement->textContent;
}
}
$columnCounter++;
}
}
print_r($result);

Answer 3

Try the below code:
$content = $crawler->filter( 'table' )->extract( array( '_text' ) );