DOMDocument -> unable to pull results from href

[runnerjp]

I have been able to pull the html of a given node

<td class="winner">
                <a href="/jockey/497-g-lee">G Lee</a><br><em><a href="/trainer/3372-r-varian">R Varian </a></em>
            </td>

what im trying to do is pull the text if href contains jockey (in this case the result will be G Lee).

im doing this by doing the following

 

@$dom2->loadHTML($trainer);
$xpath2 = new DOMXPath($dom2);
//chekc to see if it had html in it?
                
    
$result_rows2 = $xpath2->query('//a[contains(@href, "jockey")]');
 

note trainer is just the html posted above.


now i do a var_dump on the data and get this:

object(DOMNodeList)#12 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) } object(DOMNodeList)#13 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) } object(DOMNodeList)#12 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) } object(DOMNodeList)#13 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) } object(DOMNodeList)#12 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) } object(DOMNodeList)#13 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) } object(DOMNodeList)#12 (1) { ["length"]=> int(1) }

im not sure why but its not picking up the results?!?!?

would anyone be able to assist?

 

[Barand]

you could try simple_html_dom

include('simple_html_dom.php');

$str = '<td class="winner">
                <a href="/jockey/497-g-lee">G Lee</a><br><em><a href="/trainer/3372-r-varian">R Varian </a></em>
            </td>';
$html = str_get_html($str);
$jockey = $html->find("a[href*=jockey]");
echo $jockey[0];                                             //--> G Lee
$trnr = $html->find("a[href*=trainer]");
echo $trnr[0];                                               //--> R Varian