Extract text with DOM Parser - php

Question

I am just beginning to learn DOM Parser.
Let's assume that in http://test.com I have 4 lines like the one below and I am trying to extract the context as text.
All I need is LPPR 051600Z 35010KT CAVOK 27/14 Q1020 to send as a JSON payload to an incoming webhook.
<FONT FACE="Monospace,Courier">LPPR 051600Z 35010KT CAVOK 27/14 Q1020</FONT><BR>
From this example, how can I do it using $html = str_get_html and $html->find ???
I managed to send the complete HTML content, but that's not what I want.
<?php
include_once('simple_html_dom.php');
$html = file_get_html('http://test.com')->plaintext;
// The data to send to the API
$postData = array('text' => $html);
// Setup cURL
$ch = curl_init('https://uri.com/test');
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'Authorization: '.$authToken,
'Content-Type: application/json'
),
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($postData)
));
// Send the request
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// Check for errors
if($response === FALSE){
die(curl_error($ch));
}
// Decode the response
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);
// Print the date from the response
echo $responseData['published'];
?>
Many Thanks

Answer 1

If you are certain that the line is exactly like this one, you can
$line = explode('<br>', $response);
This will create an array with the <FONT>xxxxx</FONT> of each line in each position.
To get only the text from the 2nd line
$filteredResponse = strip_tags($line[1]);

Answer 2

you can use PHP:DOM is an alternative for simple_html_dom
below example gets links from google search.
<?php
# Use the Curl extension to query Google and get back a page of results
$url = "http://www.google.com";
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
# Create a DOM parser object
$dom = new DOMDocument();
# Parse the HTML from Google.
# The # before the method call suppresses any warnings that
# loadHTML might throw because of invalid HTML in the page.
#$dom->loadHTML($html);
# Iterate over all the <a> tags
foreach($dom->getElementsByTagName('font') as $link) {
# Show the <font>
echo $link->textContent;
echo "<br />";
}
?>
$dom->getElementsByTagName('font') replace tag that you want.
Happy scraping
reference :
http://htmlparsing.com/php.html
http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php