xpath problem

[ukscotth]

Hi,

 

Im having a nightmare trying to scrape some data from the freelancer.com website. I only need to scrape the job titles but for some reason it isnt working.

 

usually I would just do something like this :

 

$html = new DOMDocument();
@$html->loadHtmlFile('http://www.freelancer.com/sellers/');
$xpath = new DOMXPath( $html );
$nodelist = $xpath->query( "//div[@class='title']" );
foreach ($nodelist as $n){
echo $n->nodeValue."\n";
echo '<br>';
}

 

Its just showing blank results.

 

Any ideas ?

[premiso]

Why are you suppressing errors?

 

@$html->loadHtmlFile('http://www.freelancer.com/sellers/');

 

Remove that @ sign and see what error it is throwing. If freelancer.com does not have valid HTML, the DOM will not work with it.

[ukscotth]

Sorry not sure how that @ got there.

 

It just shows a blank page when i run it

[premiso]

Well try echoing out some variables, see if stuff is being populated. Other debugging techniques also work, such as a var_dump etc.

[ukscotth]

Shouldnt the echo $n->nodeValue."\n"; part already echo something out ?

 

Sorry if im being stoopid.