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Can't scrape/find 3 html tags in php simple html dom perser


shaadamin44

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I want to scrape a website content. here is the example html source code of that site.

<div class="entry-content">
<h2>hi tags?</h2>
<ul>
     <li>some text</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
</ul>
<h2>hi tags2 ?</h2>
<ul>
     <li>some text</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>To ometext</li>
     <li>Theometext</li>
</ul> </div>

I want to extract data of <li> tags from first <ul> html code. Here I've tried.  

include('../simple_html_dom.php');
// get DOM from URL or file
//$html =  check above html code

$articles =  $html->find('div[class="entry-content"]') ? $html->find('div[class="entry-content"]') : [];
foreach($articles as $article) {
    $items = $article->find('ul',0) ? $article->find('ul',0) : false;
    if($items !==false){
        $lis = $item->find('li') ? $item->find('li') : [];
        foreach($lis as $b){ 
            $mcpcons .= $b->plaintext;
        }
    }
}


        Help me by giving the correct info how can I do that?

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$articles =  $html->find('div[class="entry-content"]') ? $html->find('div[class="entry-content"]') : [];
foreach($articles as $article) 
{
	$items = $article->find('ul',0) ? $article->find('ul',0) : false;
	if($items !==false)
	{
		$lis = $item->find('li') ? $item->find('li') : [];
		foreach($lis as $b)
		{ 
			$mcpcons .= $b->plaintext;
		}
	}
}

Not familiar with this type of exerise at all but I ask this:

Since the first line that creates $articles apparently collects multiple div blocks and you are looping thru them, do you not also need to do that for the $items collection of ul blocks?  And just where is $item defined?  Perhaps that needs to be in this (missing) loop?

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18 hours ago, ginerjm said:
$articles =  $html->find('div[class="entry-content"]') ? $html->find('div[class="entry-content"]') : [];
foreach($articles as $article) 
{
	$items = $article->find('ul',0) ? $article->find('ul',0) : false;
	if($items !==false)
	{
		$lis = $item->find('li') ? $item->find('li') : [];
		foreach($lis as $b)
		{ 
			$mcpcons .= $b->plaintext;
		}
	}
}

Not familiar with this type of exerise at all but I ask this:

Since the first line that creates $articles apparently collects multiple div blocks and you are looping thru them, do you not also need to do that for the $items collection of ul blocks?  And just where is $item defined?  Perhaps that needs to be in this (missing) loop?

Yeah after I collect data from $articles. I need to collect first ul blocks not others ul blocks. Then I need to get all li blocks from this ul blocks. 

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9 minutes ago, shaadamin44 said:

How can I find this div[class="entry-content"] class with Barand code. I'm not sure about simplexml load function.

like this

$html = '<html>
<body>
<div class="entry-content">
<h2>hi tags?</h2>
<ul>
     <li>some text</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
</ul>
<h2>hi tags2 ?</h2>
<ul>
     <li>some text</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>To ometext</li>
     <li>Theometext</li>
</ul> </div>
</body>
</html>';

$xml = simplexml_load_string($html);
$tags = (array) $xml->xpath("//div[@class='entry-content']/ul")[0]->li;

echo '<pre>$tags= ' . print_r($tags, 1) . '</pre>';

 

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Here's a simple_html_dom/simplexml hybrid solution (the one you can't do !)

$html = '<html>
<body>
<div class="entry-content">
<h2>hi tags?</h2>
<ul>
     <li>some text</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
</ul>
<h2>hi tags2 ?</h2>
<ul>
     <li>some text</li>
     <li>sometext</li>
     <li>To ometext</li>
     <li>Theometext</li>
</ul> </div>
</body>
</html>';

$dom = new simple_html_dom();
$dom->load($html);

$div = $dom->find('div[class="entry-content"]')[0]->__toString();
$xml = simplexml_load_string($div);
$tags = (array) $xml->xpath("//ul")[0]->li;

echo '<pre>' . print_r($tags, 1) . '</pre>';

 

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