getting element content with simpe-html-dom - php

Question

I'm using simpile_html_dom for getting html pages elements.
I have some div elements like this. All i want is to get "Fine Thanks" sentence in each div (that is not inside any sub-element).
How can i do it?
<div class="right">
<h2>
Hello
</h2>
<br/>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
Fine Thanks
</div>

Answer 1

It should be simply $html->find('div.right > text'), but that won't work because Simple HTML DOM Parser doesn't seem to support direct descendant queries.
So you'd have to find all <div> elements first and search the child nodes for a text node. Unfortunately, the ->childNodes() method is mapped to ->children() and thus only returns elements.
A working solution is to call ->find('text') on each <div> element, after which you filter the results based on the parent node.
foreach ($doc->find('div.right') as $parent) {
foreach ($parent->find('text') as $node) {
if ($node->parent() === $parent && strlen($t = trim($node->plaintext))) {
echo $t, PHP_EOL;
}
}
}
Using DOMDocument, this XPath expression will do the same work without the pain:
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadHTML($content);
$xp = new DOMXPath($doc);
foreach ($xp->query('//div/text()') as $node) {
if (strlen($t = trim($node->textContent))) {
echo $t, PHP_EOL;
}
}

Answer 2

There is no built in method to read text property in simple_html_dom.php
But this should work;
include 'parser.php';
$html = str_get_html('<div class="right">
<h2>
Hello
</h2>
<br/>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
Fine Thanks
</div>');
function readTextNode($element){
$local = $element;
$childs = count($element->childNodes());
for($i = 0; $i < $childs; $i++)
$local->childNodes($i)->outertext = '';
return $local->innertext;
}
echo readTextNode($html->find('div.right',0));

Answer 3

I would switch to phpquery for this one. You still need to use DOM but not too painful:
require('phpQuery.php');
$html =<<<EOF
<div class="right">
<h2>
Hello
</h2>
<br/>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
Fine Thanks
</div>
EOF;
$dom = phpQuery::newDocumentHTML($html);
foreach($dom->find("div.right > *:last") as $last_element){
echo $last_element->nextSibling->nodeValue;
}
Update
These days I'm recommending this simple replacement which does let you avoid the dom ugliness:
$doc = str_get_html($html);
foreach($doc->find('div.right > text:last') as $el){
echo $el->text;
}

Answer 4

public function removeNode($selector)
{
foreach ($html->find($selector) as $node)
{
$node->outertext = '';
}
$this->load($this->save());
}
use this function to remove the h2 and span element from the div. Then get the div element data.
Reference URL : Simple HTML Dom: How to remove elements?