Get text value with PHP simple HTML DOM parser

Question

How can I get the text value where <span>Your name:<span> with the PHP simple HTML DOM parser without children command?

<div class="adds-info">
    <span>price:<span>1000000000 </span></span>
    <span>txt1</span>
    <span>Your name:<span>aaa</span></span>
    <span>Phone:<span>02632402210</span></span>
</div>

PHP simple HTML DOM parser api

Yes this works in CSS, but i need this in php simple html dom . — NimaS5
– NimaS5, Commented Oct 10, 2015 at 11:58
Apparently, things like :first-child are not supported. You can do something like $simpledomobject->find(".adds-info span span", 1), would that help? To print the text, you'd do echo $simpledomobject->find(".adds-info span span", 1)->innertext; — Mr Lister
– Mr Lister, Commented Oct 10, 2015 at 12:33

defines · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-10 13:39:02Z

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Assuming the HTML in your post is in a variable $str, this is fairly straightforward:

// Parse the HTML string into a DOM object
$html = str_get_html($str);

// Find the second nested span inside the <div class="adds-info">, then get its parent
$span = $html->find('.adds-info span span', 1)->parent;

// Get the innerhtml of the parent span
$name = $span->innertext;

If the number of elements changes, you need to check each one for the text you're looking for...

// Get all spans inside the <div class="adds-info">
$spans = $html->find('.adds-info span');

// Loop through each span, looking for "Your name:"
foreach ($spans as $span) {
    if (strpos($span->innerhtml, "Your name:") !== FALSE) {
        $name = $span->innerhtml;
    }
}

edited Oct 10, 2015 at 13:39

answered Oct 10, 2015 at 12:37

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NimaS5 Over a year ago

I repeated my question with a little change in my expression. i need to get text after [span=Your name] Span value must be equal to [span=Your name] . sorry for my english

defines Over a year ago

I've updated my answer, but why do you not want to use the children function?

NimaS5 Over a year ago

Not because the number of children varies, i need outertext of <span>Your name:<span> ( AAA )

defines Over a year ago

I updated my answer with an example of looping through each child span to find the one containing the text "Your name:" and return that span's innerhtml.

NimaS5 · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-11 13:46:20Z

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Thank you defines, i try by this and works

$spans = '.adds-info span';
foreach($spans as $n){  
                        if (strpos($n->innertext, "Your name:") !== FALSE) {
                            $name = $n->innertext;
                            $name = str_replace('Your name:', '', $name);
                            echo "Name: " . $name  . "<hr>";
                        }
                    }

edited Oct 11, 2015 at 13:46

answered Oct 10, 2015 at 14:29

NimaS5

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defines Over a year ago

There's no way this code works. This has a foreach iterating over a string.

defines Over a year ago

That isn't different. It's still iterating over a string, which isn't possible...

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