I am trying to extract a complete table including the HTML tags, with XPath, that I can store in a variable, do a bit of string replacement on, then echo directly to the screen. I have found numerous posts on getting the text out of the table but I want to retain the HTML formatting since I am just going to display it (after minor modification).
At present I am extracting the table using string functions stristr, substr etc. but I would prefer to use XPath.
I can display the contents of the table with the following but it just displays the table TD fields with no formatting. It also does not store it in a variable that I can manipulate.
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$arr = $xpath->query('//table');
foreach($arr as $el) {
echo $el->textContent;
I tried this but got no output:
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$arr = $xpath->query('//table');
echo $arr->saveHTML();
Use DOMNode::C14N():
foreach($arr as $el) {
echo $el->C14N();
Related
I'm calling some wikipedia content two different way:
$html = file_get_contents('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif');
The first one is to call the first paragraph
$dom = new DomDocument();
#$dom->loadHTML($html);
$p = $dom->getElementsByTagName('p')->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo $p;
The second one is to call the first paragraph after a specific $id
$dom = new DOMDocument();
#$dom->loadHTML($html);
$p=$dom->getElementById('$id')->getElementsByTagName('p')->item(0);
echo $p->nodeValue;
I'm looking for a third way to call all the first part.
So I was thinking about calling all the <p> before the id or class "toc" which is the id/class of the table of content.
Any idea how to do that?
If you're just looking for the intro in plain text, you can simply use Wikipedia's API:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro=&explaintext=&titles=Sans-serif
If you want HTML formatting as well (excluding inner images and the likes):
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro=&titles=Sans-serif
You could use DOMDocument and DOMXPath with for example an xpath expression like:
//div[#id="toc"]/preceding-sibling::p
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif");
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$nodes = $xpath->query('//div[#id="toc"]/preceding-sibling::p');
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
echo $node->nodeValue;
}
That would give you the content of the paragraphs preceding the div with id = toc.
I have this keyword: yt-lookup-title.
I want the next 17 letters after this in a variable. So I would have:
"<a href="/watch?v=HnlC81tWoY8"
How can I archive that I get it from all lines with this Keyword?
Keywords
If you want to get the href content, you can rely on domdocument.
If I'm not mistaken, all the links (<a>) have this class yt-uix-tile-link. So you can do the following:
$dom = new DOMDocument;
// $html is a string containing the html of the page you're parsing
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
links = array ();
$nodes = $xpath->query('//a[#class="yt-uix-tile-link"]/#href');
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
$links [] = $node->nodeValue;
}
var_dump ($links);
Hope that helps
I am using domDocument hoping to parse this little html code. I am looking for a specific span tag with a specific id.
<span id="CPHCenter_lblOperandName">Hello world</span>
My code:
$dom = new domDocument;
#$dom->loadHTML($html); // the # is to silence errors and misconfigures of HTML
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$nodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName('//span[#id="CPHCenter_lblOperandName"');
foreach($nodes as $node){
echo $node->nodeValue;
}
But For some reason I think something is wrong with either the code or the html (how can I tell?):
When I count nodes with echo count($nodes); the result is always 1
I get nothing outputted in the nodes loop
How can I learn the syntax of these complex queries?
What did I do wrong?
You can use simple getElementById:
$dom->getElementById('CPHCenter_lblOperandName')->nodeValue
or in selector way:
$selector = new DOMXPath($dom);
$list = $selector->query('/html/body//span[#id="CPHCenter_lblOperandName"]');
echo($list->item(0)->nodeValue);
//or
foreach($list as $span) {
$text = $span->nodeValue;
}
Your four part question gets an answer in three parts:
getElementsByTagName does not take an XPath expression, you need to give it a tag name;
Nothing is output because no tag would ever match the tagname you provided (see #1);
It looks like what you want is XPath, which means you need to create an XPath object - see the PHP docs for more;
Also, a better method of controlling the libxml errors is to use libxml_use_internal_errors(true) (rather than the '#' operator, which will also hide other, more legitimate errors). That would leave you with code that looks something like this:
<?php
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
foreach($xpath->query("//span[#id='CPHCenter_lblOperandName']") as $node) {
echo $node->textContent;
}
i have the following code. and i want to retrieve only the a href titles , that have /movie/ within url.
function get_a_contentmovies(){
$h1count = preg_match_all("/(<a.*>)(\w.*)(<.*>)/ismU",$this->DataFromSite,$patterns);
return $patterns[2];
}
You can use DOMXpath like this:
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($string);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
$elements = $xpath->query("//a[contains(#href, '/movie/')]");
foreach($elements as $el) {
var_dump($el->getAttribute('title'));
}
Using Regex to parse (x)HTML is a bad idea. You should use a DOM parser such as DomDocument. Have a look at this topic.
im in need of converting part of DOM element to string with html tags inside of them.
i tried following but it prints just a text without tags in side.
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.pixmania-pro.co.uk/gb/uk/08920684/art/packard-bell/easynote-tm89-gu-015uk.html');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$elements=xpath->query('//table');
foreach($elements as $element)
echo $element->nodeValue;
i want all the tags as it is and the content inside tables. can some one help me. it'll be a greate help.
thanks.
Current solution:
foreach($elements as $element){
echo $dom->saveHTML($element);
}
Old answer (php < 5.3.6):
Create new instance of DomDocument
Clone node (with all sub nodes) you wish to save as HTML
Import cloned node to new instance of DomDocument and append it as a child
Save new instance as html
So something like this:
foreach($elements as $element){
$newdoc = new DOMDocument();
$cloned = $element->cloneNode(TRUE);
$newdoc->appendChild($newdoc->importNode($cloned,TRUE));
echo $newdoc->saveHTML();
}
With php 5.3.6 or higher you can use a node in DOMDocument::saveHTML:
foreach($elements as $element){
echo $dom->saveHTML($element);
}