How can I echo a scraped div in PHP? - php

Question

How do I echo and scrape a div class? I tried this but it doesn't work. I am using cURL to establish the connection. How do I echo it? I want it just how it is on the actual page.
$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->loadHTML($html);
$selector = new DOMXPath($document);
$anchors = $selector->query("/html/body//div[#class='resultitem']");
//a URL you want to retrieve
foreach($anchors as $a) {
echo $a;
}

Answer 1

Neighbor,
I just made this snippet below, that uses your logic, and some tweaks to display the specified class from the webpage in the get_contents function.
Maybe you can plug in your values and try it?
(Note: I put the error checking in there to see a few bugs. It can be helpful to use that as you tweak. )
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
$url = "http://www.tizag.com/cssT/cssid.php";
$class_to_scrape="display";
$html = file_get_contents($url);
$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->loadHTML($html);
$selector = new DOMXPath($document);
$anchors = $selector->query("/html/body//div[#class='". $class_to_scrape ."']");
echo "ok, no php syntax errors. <br>Lets see what we scraped.<br>";
foreach ($anchors as $node) {
$full_content = innerHTML($node);
echo "<br>".$full_content."<br>" ;
}
/* this function preserves the inner content of the scraped element.
** http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5349310/how-to-scrape-web-page-data-without-losing-tags
** So be sure to go and give that post an uptick too:)
**/
function innerHTML(DOMNode $node)
{
$doc = new DOMDocument();
foreach ($node->childNodes as $child) {
$doc->appendChild($doc->importNode($child, true));
}
return $doc->saveHTML();
}
?>