How to get AJAX RESPONSE text from DIV using PHP DOMDocument? - php

Question

I have to recover some text from a div of a site. The div is structured as follows:
The HTML Markup:
<div class="content" id="content">
Loading.....
</div>
Content of DIV changes by AJAX function which is on onload of page I guess. and the content of DIV get changes after 1 or 2 seconds.and the HTML structure becomes:
<div class="content" id="content">
<span class"parent">
<span class="child">
<span class="sometext">HERE IS SOME TEXT</span>
</span>
</span>
</div>
When I use the following PHP function(crawl_page) to grab the HTML of div with ID content it always return (Loading..) which it should be.
What I need is the updated html code, is there anyway to achieve this ?
function crawl_page($url)
{
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($url);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$element = $xpath->query("//*[#id='content']")->item(0);
echo $element->nodeValue;
}
crawl_page("http://example.com/#1:7");

Answer 1

i hope its working. And download include file from the below url
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/
<?php
// example of how to use basic selector to retrieve HTML contents
include('../simple_html_dom.php');
// get DOM from URL or file
$html = file_get_html('http://example.com/#1:7');
// find all link
foreach($html->find('a') as $e)
echo $e->href . '<br>';
// find all image
foreach($html->find('img') as $e)
echo $e->src . '<br>';
// find all image with full tag
foreach($html->find('img') as $e)
echo $e->outertext . '<br>';
// find all div tags with id=gbar
foreach($html->find('div#content') as $e)
echo $e->innertext . '<br>';
// find all span tags with class=gb1
foreach($html->find('span.gb1') as $e)
echo $e->outertext . '<br>';
// find all td tags with attribite align=center
foreach($html->find('td[align=center]') as $e)
echo $e->innertext . '<br>';
// extract text from table
echo $html->find('td[align="center"]', 1)->plaintext.'<br><hr>';
// extract text from HTML
echo $html->plaintext;
?>