How to use php simpleHTMLdom to parse HTML an get strings?

Question

how to use simpleHTMLdom to get a string that is inside a <th> tag (and there is many other <th>) For example :

<th>name</th>
    <td>john</td>
<th>age</th>
    <td>32</td>

How to get 32 ? note that sometimes, the website i'm parsing, doesn't contain the same number of <th> sometimes there is no <th>name</th> so i cant do : $html->find('th',1) to get age and go to <td> to get 32

Any way to perform something like : $html->find('age') ?

Thank you

You have to loop through all 'th' and find index of age and use that index to find its 'td'. — Naqash Malik
– Naqash Malik, Commented Apr 5, 2016 at 10:49
I agree with you @Malik but <th> (even for <td>) do not have class or id how to find index of age ? i'm looking for a way to find by string for example or something like that — Sushi
– Sushi, Commented Apr 5, 2016 at 10:52

Naqash Malik · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-05 10:58:51Z

1

You have to do something like this:

$ageIndex = 0;
foreach($html->find('th') as $key => $val)
{
  if($val->innertext == 'age')
  {
     $ageIndex = $key;
     break;
  }
}

$age = $html->find('td',$ageIndex);

edited Apr 5, 2016 at 10:58

answered Apr 5, 2016 at 10:53

Naqash Malik

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