Need help for fixing html when scrape using php simple html dom parser

[shaadamin44]

require_once 'phpSimpleHtmlDomClass.php'; $html = '<div> <div class="man">Name: madac</div> <div class="man">Age: 18 <div class="man">Class: 12</div> </div>' $name=$html->find('div[class="man"]', 0)->innertext; $age=$html->find('div[class="man"]', 1)->innertext; $cls=$html->find('div[class="man"]', 2)->innertext;

wanna get a text from each div class="man" but it didn't work because there is a missing closing div tag on 2nd line of html code. please help me to fix this.

thanks in advance.

[requinix]

Add the closing div tag? Where is the HTML coming from?

[shaadamin44]

16 minutes ago, requinix said:

Add the closing div tag? Where is the HTML coming from?

From a website 

[requinix]

30 minutes ago, shaadamin44 said:

From a website 

A website that you control? Someone else's? Can you tell them to fix their markup so that it's, you know, syntactically valid HTML?

[Barand]

The only difference that missing </div> makes is that the second find() returns the text up to the next </div>, thus giving

$name = "Name: madac"
$age  = "Age: 18    <div class='man'>Class: 12</div> "  
$cls  = "Class: 12"

So you just need to look for and  trim off the excess "<div> ... </div>"

 

Perhaps...

$html = str_get_html('<div> 
<div class="man">Name: madac</div> 
<div class="man">Age: 18  
<div class="man">Class: 12</div> 
</div>'); 

$name = trim_html($html->find('div[class="man"]', 0)->innertext); 
$age  = trim_html($html->find('div[class="man"]', 1)->innertext); 
$cls  = trim_html($html->find('div[class="man"]', 2)->innertext);

function trim_html($str)
{
    if ( ($p = strpos($str, '<'))  !== false) {
        $str = substr($str, 0, $p);
    }
    return trim($str);
}

 

Edited June 17, 2021 by Barand

[shaadamin44]

2 hours ago, requinix said:

A website that you control? Someone else's? Can you tell them to fix their markup so that it's, you know, syntactically valid HTML?

That's a government site. I've no access to the site.     

[requinix]

Regular expressions are also an option. Once you've drilled down as far into the HTML as you can, you can much more safely look for things like "Age: <number>".

[shaadamin44]

2 hours ago, Barand said:

The only difference that missing </div> makes is that the second find() returns the text up to the next </div>, thus giving

$name = "Name: madac"
$age  = "Age: 18    <div class='man'>Class: 12</div> "  
$cls  = "Class: 12"

So you just need to look for and  trim off the excess "<div> ... </div>"

 

Perhaps...

$html = str_get_html('<div> 
<div class="man">Name: madac</div> 
<div class="man">Age: 18  
<div class="man">Class: 12</div> 
</div>'); 

$name = trim_html($html->find('div[class="man"]', 0)->innertext); 
$age  = trim_html($html->find('div[class="man"]', 1)->innertext); 
$cls  = trim_html($html->find('div[class="man"]', 2)->innertext);

function trim_html($str)
{
    if ( ($p = strpos($str, '<'))  !== false) {
        $str = substr($str, 0, $p);
    }
    return trim($str);
}

 

I've tried your code. That's amazingly worked for me. Thank you so much.  

[Psycho]

You really need to analyze the source data to identify the different data and types of issues that can exist in order to determine the appropriate solution. For example, the solution @Barand provided would be acceptable if:

1) The only issues are missing closing tags

2) None of the "data" contains a greater than sign

If there are other types of issues or if data can contain the < symbol then a different solution is in order.