PHP DOM get element which contains - php

Question

Need help with parsing HTML code by PHP DOM.
This is simple part of huge HTML code:
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" bgcolor='#ffffff'>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">
<span class="tl">Obchodne meno:</span>
</td>
<td align="left" width="80%">
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="67%">
<span class='ra'>STORE BUSSINES</span>
</td>
<td width="33%" valign='top'>
<span class='ra'>(od: 02.10.2012)</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
What I need is to get text "STORE BUSINESS". Unfortunately, the only thing I can catch is "Obchodne meno" as a content of first tag, so according to this content I need to get its parent->parent->first sibling->child->child->child->child->content. I have limited experience with parsing html in php so any help will be valuable. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Make use of DOMDocument Class and loop through the <span> tags and put them in array.
<?php
$html=<<<XCOE
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" bgcolor='#ffffff'>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="20%">
<span class="tl">Obchodne meno:</span>
</td>
<td align="left" width="80%">
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="67%">
<span class='ra'>STORE BUSSINES</span>
</td>
<td width="33%" valign='top'>
<span class='ra'>(od: 02.10.2012)</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
XCOE;
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html);
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('span') as $tag) {
$spanarr[]=$tag->nodeValue;
}
echo $spanarr[1]; //"prints" STORE BUSINESS