getting started with domdocument

[ludo1960]

Hi guys,

Just starting to play with PHP Domdocument, only to fail at the very first step:

<?php   

$html = 'test/php/somefile.html' ;

if(!empty($html)){  

      $dom_1 = new domDocument ; 
      $dom_1->loadHTML($html) ; 
      $links = $dom_1->getElementsByTagName('li') ;

      foreach ( $links as $link) {
			// echo $link ;
           echo $link->nodeValue, PHP_EOL;
      }  
}
?>

When I visit it in a browser I get a WSOD, what am I missing?

[gw1500se]

You did not read the documentation. The variable $html is not an HTML string which is what loadHTML expects. You want 'loadHTMLFile' instead.

[ludo1960]

oops, all good now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, off to play now and I promise to read the manual .