Loop through two DOMNodeLists at once using DOMDocument class - php

Question

I got an error saying
Object of class DOMNodeList could not be converted to string on line
This is the line which contains the error:
$output .= '<li><a target="_blank" href="' . $postURL . '">' .
$title->nodeValue . '</a></li>';
DOM
My code:
$postTitle = $xpath->query("//tr/td[#class='row1'][3]//span[1]/text()");
$postURL = $xpath->query("//tr/td[#class='row1'][3]//a/#href");
$output = '<ul>';
foreach ($postTitle as $title) {
$output .= '<li><a target="_blank" href="' . $postURL . '">' . $title->nodeValue . '</a></li>';
}
$output .= '</ul>';
echo $output;
How can I resolve the error?

Answer 1

You're fetching two independent node list from the DOM, iterate the first and try to use the second one inside the loop as a string. A DOMNodeList can not be cast to string (in PHP) so you get an error. Node lists can be cast to string in Xpath however.
You need to iterate the location path that is the same for booth list (//tr/td[#class='row1'][3]) and get the $title and $url inside the loop for each of the td elements.
$posts = $xpath->evaluate("//tr/td[#class='row1'][3]");
$output = '<ul>';
foreach ($posts as $post) {
$title = $xpath->evaluate("string(.//span[1])", $post);
$url = $xpath->evaluate("string(.//a/#href)", $post);
$output .= sprintf(
'<li><a target="_blank" href="%s">%s</a></li>',
htmlspecialchars($url),
htmlspecialchars($title)
);
}
$output .= '</ul>';
echo $output;