PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser issue

Question

I have a section of html code like this :

      <a>
             <img scr=""/>some text here...
      </a>

      <a>
             <img scr=""/>some text here...
      </a>

I need to get the some text here...

i was trying like this : let say the section above is in a html dom.$html

foreach ($html->find('a') as $myText)
{
      echo '-----PPPP---->>>>'.$myText->plaintext.'this is test<br/>';   
}

But it's printing the text and image both.I just need the text

Odd. ->plaintext should only retrieve text nodes from the node you're dealing with. ->innertext would return child nodes as well as the text. — Marc B
– Marc B, Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 15:00
Simple HTML DOM Parser has it's issues, probably that's one of them. You could change to a better parser like DOMDocument and then just use an xpath expression to obtain the text. — hakre
– hakre, Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 15:02

ThiefMaster · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-14 10:47:50Z

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->find('a')->plaintext;

should do it

edited Jun 14, 2012 at 10:47

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Charles Sprayberry · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-22 15:07:26Z

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I didn't use Simple HTML DOM Parser but instead went with DomDocument:

$html = <<<HTML
<a><img src=""/>some text here...</a>
<a><img scr=""/>some text here...</a>
HTML;

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName("a");
foreach ($links as $link) {
    var_dump($link->textContent);
}

results in:

string 'some text here...' (length=17)
string 'some text here...' (length=17)

answered Feb 22, 2012 at 15:07

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seferov · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-22 15:07:32Z

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How about splitting it into two parts and printing after image tag:

foreach ($html->find('a') as $myText)
{
   $parts = explode("/>", $myText);
   echo $parts[1];
}

answered Feb 22, 2012 at 15:07

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Arjun Bajaj · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-22 15:08:52Z

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I think you should use DOMDocument in PHP.

Like this:

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->load($htmlfile);
$atags = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach ($atags as $atag) {
    echo $atag->textContent;
}

answered Feb 22, 2012 at 15:08

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