Crawling with PHP and XPATH - php

Question

I'm crawling a page because I want to show it on our website. I have a problem with getting the link on each team though. I get the team name, but I cant get the href attribute.
My code looks like this:
elements = $xpath->query("//table/tr[contains(#class,'sr')]/td[contains(#class,'c')]");
$count = 0;
foreach ($elements as $elt) {
if($count == 0)
{
$stringInsert = utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 1)
{
// tries to echo the href here, but dont get it.
echo $elt->getAttribute('href')
$stringInsert .= ", '".trim(utf8_decode($elt->textContent))."'";
}
else if($count == 3)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 4)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 5)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 6)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 7)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 9)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
else if($count == 10)
{
$stringInsert .= ", ".utf8_decode($elt->textContent);
}
$count++;
if($count == 12)
{
echo $stringInsert;
$count = 0;
}
}
As you can see in the code, i try to echo the $elt->getAttribute('href') in count == 1, but it does not show anything.
I have tried to add a /a to the xpath conditions, but then it only gets the Team name and not all the other stuff like, score, point and etc.

Answer 1

You seem to query for the td Elements, which won't have an attribute href.
May this example is helpful:
//array to store the results
$res = array();
//loop over all <tr> elements of the table.srPoolPosition
foreach ($path->query("//table[contains(#class,'srPoolPosition')]/tr") as $row) {
//new array to store results in each row
$rowRes = array();
//get the <td> elements in current <tr>
$fields = $path->query('td', $row);
//skip if not 12 fields
if ($fields->length < 12) {
continue;
}
//loop over those
foreach ($fields as $field) {
//store the textcontent in the current rows array
$rowRes[] = utf8_decode($field->textContent);
}
//query for the link in the current row
$link = $path->query("a", $row)->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
//add the link to the results array
rowRes[] = $link;
//then add it to the results
$res[] = $rowRes;
}
//example loop over the results
foreach ($res as $tableRow) {
echo sprintf(
'%s: %s - %s<br>',
$tableRow[13], //link href
$tableRow[1], //name
$tableRow[7], //score 1
$tableRow[9] //score 2
);
}