PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser beginner

Question

Hello I've succesfully parsed some tables from an html page using this code:

foreach($html->find('table') as $table) {
echo '<table>';
echo $table->innertext;
echo '</table>';
}

Now I'd like to parse some more code, look at the source html below:

<h5>.....</h5>
<table>.....</table>
<h5>.....</h5>
<table>.....</table>
<h5>.....</h5>
<table>.....</table>

I tried this code:

foreach($html->find('h5') as $h5) {
echo '<h5>';
echo $h5->innertext;
echo '</h5>';
}
foreach($html->find('table') as $table) {
echo '<table>';
echo $table->innertext;
echo '</table>';
}

This is the output:

<h5>.....</h5>
<h5>.....</h5>
<h5>.....</h5>
<table>.....</table>
<table>.....</table>
<table>.....</table>

How can I do to preserve the original order? Thanks!

Peter van der Wal · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-08 15:36:34Z

3

You have to get and loop over all nodes at once

foreach($html->find('h5, table') as $node) { // or ->find('*')
    echo '<' . $node->tag . '>'; // $node->tag = 'h5' for a h5-element, and so on
    echo $node->innertext;
    echo '</' . $node->tag . '>';
}

answered Dec 8, 2018 at 15:36

Peter van der Wal

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3 Comments

AngusYoung14 Over a year ago

Thank you very much for your help! It looks like it's working as intended. One more question: how can I add a class to table tags?

Peter van der Wal Over a year ago

I suggest you read the simplehtmldom documentation (although it is very minimal...). You can easily read out an node's class with $tableClass = $node->class

AngusYoung14 Over a year ago

Thanks I was able to add classes with this code: foreach($html->find('h5, .table') as $node) { echo '<' . $node->tag . ' class="live-data">'; // $node->tag = 'h5' for a h5-element, and so on echo $node->innertext; echo '</' . $node->tag . '>';

AngusYoung14 · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-11 11:02:58Z

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Thanks I was able to add classes with this code:

foreach($html->find('h5, .table') as $node) {
echo '<' . $node->tag . ' class="myclass">';
echo $node->innertext;
echo '</' . $node->tag . '>';

answered Dec 11, 2018 at 11:02

AngusYoung14

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2 Comments

Mark Baijens Over a year ago

.table? I don't know this parser but this looks like a class selector.

AngusYoung14 Over a year ago

Yes I only needed to parse tables with class="table".

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