Need Help Removing Whitespace From Div - php

Question

I am new to DOM parsing, but I got most of this figured out. I'm just having trouble removing nbsp; from a div.
Here's my PHP:
function parseDOM($url) {
$dom = new DOMDocument;
#$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$movies = array();
foreach ($xpath->query('//div[#class="mshow"]') as $movie) {
$item = array();
$links = $xpath->query('.//a', $movie);
$item['trailer'] = $links->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
$item['reviews'] = $links->item(1)->getAttribute('href');
$item['link'] = $links->item(2)->getAttribute('href');
$item['title'] = $links->item(2)->nodeValue;
$item['rating'] = trim($xpath->query('.//strong/following-sibling::text()',
$movie)->item(0)->nodeValue);
$i = 0;
foreach ($xpath->query('.//div[#class="rsd"]', $movie) as $date) {
$dates = $xpath->query('.//div[#class="rsd"]', $movie);
$times = $xpath->query('.//div[#class="rst"]', $movie);
$item['datetime'][] = $dates->item($i)->nodeValue . $times->item($i)->nodeValue;
$i += 1;
}
$movies[] = $item;
}
return $movies;
}
$url = 'http://www.tribute.ca/showtimes/theatres/may-cinema-6/mayc5/?datefilter=-1';
$movies = parseDOM($url);
foreach ($movies as $key => $value) {
echo $value['title'] . '<br>';
echo $value['link'] . '<br>';
echo $value['rating'] . '<br>';
foreach ($value['datetime'] as $datetime) {
echo $datetime . '<br>';
}
}
Here's what the HTML looks like:
<div class="rst" >6:45pm 9:30pm </div>
Is there something I can add to the xpath query to achieve this? I did try adding strip_tags to $times->item($i)->nodeValue, but it's still printing out like: Thu, May 01: 6:45pm   9:30pm  Â
Edit: str_replace("\xc2\xa0", '', $times->item($i)->nodeValue); seems to do the trick.

Answer 1

try this :
$times->item($i)->nodeValue = str_replace(" ","",$times->item($i)->nodeValue);
it should delete every
EDIT
your line :
$item['datetime'][] = $dates->item($i)->nodeValue . $times->item($i)->nodeValue;
become :
$item['datetime'][] = $dates->item($i)->nodeValue
. str_replace(" ","",$times->item($i)->nodeValue);
EDIT 2
if str_replace does not work, try with str_ireplaceas suggested in comment.
If it still doesn't work, you can also try with :
preg_replace("# #","",$times->item($i)->nodeValue);
EDIT 3
you may have an encoding problem. see uft8_encode
Or piggy solution :
str_replace("Â","",$times->item($i)->nodeValue);
Apolo