PHP Simple HTML DOM parser - parsing nested elements

Question

I've been playing with PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser Manual found here http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm and I got success with some tests except this one:

It got nested tables and spans and I would like to parse the outer text of span with class of mynum.

<?php

require_once 'simple_html_dom.php';

$url = 'http://relumastudio.com/test/target.html';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1042.0 Safari/535.21");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$result = curl_exec($ch);

$DEBUG = 1;

if($DEBUG){
    $html = new simple_html_dom();
    $html->load($url);
    echo $html->find('span[class=mynum]',0)->outertext; // I should get 123456
}else{
    echo $result;
}        
curl_close($ch);

I thought I could get away with just once call to echo $html->find('span[class=mynum]',0)->outertext; to get the text 123456 but I can't.

Any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

You should post the html with your question rather than the curl code. — pguardiario
– pguardiario, Commented Oct 23, 2014 at 0:42

Kevin · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-22 11:27:48Z

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Load the url properly first. Then use ->innertext in this case:

$url = 'http://relumastudio.com/test/target.html';
$html = file_get_html($url);
$num = $html->find('span.mynum', 0)->innertext;
echo $num;

answered Oct 22, 2014 at 11:27

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anagnam Over a year ago

for the simple example I had, your solution worked. but if I change the URL link to same structure, it doesn't work anymore. Actually, I make a simple example out of the URL that I want to parse with exact same structure but simplified. Care to see the URL?

anagnam Over a year ago

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

MIvanIsten · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-22 11:18:59Z

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You need innertext.

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file($url);
echo $html->find('span[class=mynum]',0)->innertext;

outertext returns <span class="mynum">123456</span>

answered Oct 22, 2014 at 11:18

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anagnam Over a year ago

@MIvanlsten, I'v tried it but still its returning NULL.

Ares Draguna Over a year ago

are you sure you have the 123456 in that span? maybe the spam is empty so obviously no result is returned...

anagnam Over a year ago

@AresDraguna Yes. please inspect this url relumastudio.com/test/target.html

Ares Draguna Over a year ago

what does $html->find('span[class=mynum]',0)->innertext; return?

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