Get DIV Element contents thru DOMDocument PHP - php

Question

I have to recover some news from a div of a site. The div is structured as follows:
The HTML Markup:
<ul id="news-accordion" class="rounded" style="padding: 2px;">
<li class="o">
<h3>
<span>TITLE ARTICLE</span>
<span>30/10/2014</span>
</h3>
<div style="display: none;">
<p>text of article</p>
</div>
</li>
<li class="e">
<h3>
<span>TITLE ARTICLE</span>
<span>28/10/2014</span>
</h3>
<div style="display: none;">
<p>text of article</p>
</div>
</li>
<li class="o">
<h3>
<span>TITLE ARTICLE</span>
<span>29/10/2014</span>
</h3>
<div style="display: none;">
<p>text of article</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
PHP
<?php
$doc = new DomDocument;
$doc->validateOnParse = true;
$doc->loadHtml(file_get_contents('http://www.xxxxxxxxx/news.php'));
$news = $doc->getElementById('news-accordion');
$li = $news->getElementsByTagName('li');
foreach ($li as $row){
$title = $row->getElementsByTagName('h3');
echo $title->item(0)->nodeValue."<br><br>";
/*foreach ($title as $row2){
echo $row2->nodeValue."<br><br>";
//echo $row2->item(0)->nodeValue."<br><br>";
}*/
$text = $row->getElementsByTagName('p');
echo utf8_decode($text->item(0)->nodeValue)."<br><br><br>";
}
?>
The code works correctly, but when I print the contents of the span tag echo $title->item(0)->nodeValue;,
The text of the two span is printed together.
How can I take the contents of the two span separately? Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes you can, just adjust the ->item() index. Just like what you have done already in the other elements, point it to that header element, then just explicitly point it to those span children:
foreach ($li as $row){
$h3 = $row->getElementsByTagName('h3')->item(0);
$title = $h3->getElementsByTagName('span')->item(0); // first span
$date = $h3->getElementsByTagName('span')->item(1); // second span
echo $title->nodeValue . '<br/>';
echo $date->nodeValue . '<br/>';
$text = $row->getElementsByTagName('p');
echo utf8_decode($text->item(0)->nodeValue)."<br><br><br>";
}

Answer 2

$title = $row->getElementsByTagName('h3');
echo $title->item(0)->nodeValue."<br><br>";
Replace above two line with below (instead of using h3 tag use span tag)
$title = $row->getElementsByTagName('span');
echo $title->item(0)->nodeValue."<br><br>";
echo $title->item(1)->nodeValue."<br><br>";
It's working for me.