How to parse data-extension attribute with PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Question

I'm using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to parse an HTML file, but I'm unable to parse the "data-extension" attribute of an "a" tag. The HTML looks like this:

<a href="/websitenews.html" class="video" data-extension='{"mediaObj":{"url":"http://a-website.com/ondemand/226/217.js","offset":"0.0"}}' title="Video start">

My PHP code looks like this:

foreach($html->find('a[class=video]') as $e) {
  echo $e->data-extension;
}

But all it is echoing is a series of zeros. How can I echo the url within the data-extension, i.e., "http://a-website.com/ondemand/226/217.js" ? Thanks.

Mr.ZZ · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-19 10:50:36Z

1

My solution:

foreach($html->find('a[class=video]') as $e)
{
  $json = json_decode($e->{'data-extension'});
  foreach($json as $key=>$data)
  {
    echo $data->url;
  } 
}

edited Mar 19, 2018 at 10:50

answered Mar 16, 2018 at 6:25

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Brian Patterson Over a year ago

Yeah what he said

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