Extract HTML Using PHP Simple HTML DOM

a HTML DOM parser let you manipulate HTML in a very easy way and supports invalid HTML.
also can find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery.

How To Extract HTML Using PHP Simple HTML DOM

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the code is free and open source with MIT license to use it freely in your personal and commerical projects.

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Code Usage

let’s take this web site as an example (http://www.pluscss.com).
we should include the library first.

include('simple_html_dom.php');

Then we will define the site that we are going to extract the HTML from.

$html = file_get_html('http://www.pluscss.com');

Then, Let’s search for all images in the index of http://www.pluscss.com

foreach($html->find('img') as $img) {
        echo $img->src . '<br>';
}
/* it will result something like :
common/images/logo.png
upload/slider/1389582835.jpg
upload/slider/1384787160.jpg
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/products/70061389577558.jpg&w=290&h=160&q=80&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/products/75721381286020.jpg&w=290&h=160&q=80&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/products/79131381417480.jpg&w=290&h=160&q=80&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/posts/67661388955737.jpg&w=100&h=65&q=100&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/posts/25331388744591.jpg&w=100&h=65&q=100&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/posts/80581388644743.jpg&w=100&h=65&q=100&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/posts/35141388387304.jpg&w=100&h=65&q=100&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/posts/80441387953862.jpg&w=100&h=65&q=100&mode=stretch
imageprocessor.php?src=./upload/posts/10611387409811.jpg&w=100&h=65&q=100&mode=stretch
*/

let’s take another example, we will search for ul list with the class main-menu and then fetch it’s items :

foreach($html->find('ul.main-menu') as $ul) {
    foreach($ul->find('li') as $li) {
        echo $li->innertext . '<br>';
    }
}

another example to find all meta tags that have the property name (exclude the meta that don’t have the property name)

foreach($html->find('meta[name] 








') as $meta) {
    echo $meta->name.' : '.$meta->content . '<br>';
}
/*
the result will be : 
description : pluscss.com provides scripts for php sql css jquery ajax web techniques along with articles and tutorials
keywords : scripts,php,sql,css,jquery,ajax,web techniques,articles,tutorials
author : PlusCSS
generator : PlusCSS
*/

you can also read the full documentation at http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm