What is simple html dom?

PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

A fast, simple and reliable HTML document parser for PHP.

Created by S.C. Chen, based on HTML Parser for PHP 4 by Jose Solorzano.

Parse any HTML document

PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser handles any HTML document, even ones that are considered invalid by the HTML specification.

Select elements using CSS selectors

PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser supports CSS style selectors to navigate the DOM, similar to jQuery.

Download

• Download the latest version from SourceForge

Contributing

• Request features on the Feature Request Tracker
• Report bugs on the Bug Tracker
• Get involved with the community on the Discussions Board

License

PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser is Free Software licensed under the MIT License.

Index

• Quick Start
• How to create HTML DOM object?
• How to find HTML elements?
• How to access the HTML element's attributes?
• How to traverse the DOM tree?
• How to dump contents of DOM object?
• How to customize the parsing behavior?
• API Reference
• FAQ

Quick Start

Top

• Get HTML elements
• Modify HTML elements
• Extract contents from HTML
• Scraping Slashdot!

$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');

foreach($html->find('img') as $element)
       echo $element->src . '
';

foreach($html->find('a') as $element)
       echo $element->href . '
';

$html = str_get_html('

$html->find('div[id=hello]', 0)->innertext = 'foo';

echo $html;

echo file_get_html('http://www.google.com/')->plaintext;

$html = file_get_html('http://slashdot.org/');

foreach($html->find('div.article') as $article) {
    $item['title']     = $article->find('div.title', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['intro']    = $article->find('div.intro', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['details'] = $article->find('div.details', 0)->plaintext;
    $articles[] = $item;
}

print_r($articles);

How to create HTML DOM object?

Top

• Quick way
• Object-oriented way

$html = str_get_html('Hello!');

$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');

$html = file_get_html('test.htm');

$html = new simple_html_dom();

$html->load('Hello!');

$html->load_file('http://www.google.com/');

$html->load_file('test.htm');

How to find HTML elements?

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• Basics
• Advanced
• Descendant selectors
• Nested selectors
• Attribute Filters
• Text & Comments

$ret = $html->find('a');

$ret = $html->find('a', 0);

$ret = $html->find('a', -1);

$ret = $html->find('div[id]');

$ret = $html->find('div[id=foo]');

$ret = $html->find('#foo');

$ret = $html->find('.foo');

$ret = $html->find('*[id]');

$ret = $html->find('a, img');

$ret = $html->find('a[title], img[title]');

Supports these operators in attribute selectors:

$es = $html->find('ul li');

$es = $html->find('div div div');

$es = $html->find('table.hello td');

$es = $html->find(''table td[align=center]');

foreach($html->find('ul') as $ul)
{
       foreach($ul->find('li') as $li)
       {
            
       }
}

$e = $html->find('ul', 0)->find('li', 0);

How to access the HTML element's attributes?

Top

• Get, Set and Remove attributes
• Magic attributes
• Tips

$value = $e->href;

$e->href = 'my link';

$e->href = null;

if(isset($e->href))
        echo 'href exist!';

$html = str_get_html("

echo $e->tag;
echo $e->outertext;
echo $e->innertext;
echo $e->plaintext;

echo $html->plaintext;

$e->outertext = '