Using Xpath with php to parse html from a website - php

Question

Currently I'm trying to use xpath to parse an html page from a website.
I need to get a result in the format:
Time of the program : Program name
For example:
1.00PM : Ye Hai Mohabbatein
I am using the following code (as shown here) to obtain it but it is not working.
<?php
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom = new DomDocument;
$dom->loadHTMLFile("www.starplus.in/schedule.aspx");
$xpath = new DomXPath($dom);
$nodes = $xpath->query("//table");
foreach ($nodes as $i => $node) {
echo "hy";
echo "Node($i): ", $node->nodeValue, "\n";
}
?>
I will be thankful if anybody help me out in this issue.

Answer 1

Basically, just target the table div/table which has that name of the show and the timeslot.
Rough example:
// it seems it doesn't work when there is no user agent
$ch = curl_init('http://www.starplus.in/schedule.aspx');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$page = curl_exec($ch);
$dom = new DOMDocument;
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom->loadHTML($page);
libxml_clear_errors();
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$shows = array();
$tables = $xpath->query("//div[#class='sech_div_bg']/table"); // target that table
foreach ($tables as $table) {
$time_slot = $xpath->query('./tr[1]/td/span', $table)->item(0)->nodeValue;
$show_name = $xpath->query('./tr[3]/td/span', $table)->item(0)->nodeValue;
$shows[] = array('time_slot' => $time_slot, 'show_name' => $show_name);
echo "$time_slot - $show_name <br/>";
}
// echo '<pre>';
// print_r($shows);