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#46 Access to array of matched elements

2025-11-06T21:02:05.187000Z

DELETE THIS REQUEST

#63 Get the elements of the upper level like with CSS pseudo selector :first-child

2024-12-02T02:50:51.753000Z

Ok. Wrong test. The method it's called like
$sections = $html->find('section')->firstChild();
but I got the same an error because it's an Array.
So there's not the same as the CSS pseudo selector rule first-child

Get the elements of the upper level like with CSS pseudo selector :first-child

2024-11-30T20:52:00.216000Z

I'm trying to scrape from some day by using CSS pseudo selector first-child.

$html = '
<div>
    <section>
        <section class="A">A</section>
        <section class="B">B</section>
    </section>
    <section class="C">
        C
    </section>
    <section>
        <section class="D">D</section>
        <section class="E">E</section>
    </section>
</div>
';

        $html = str_get_html($html);

        $sections = $html->find('section:first-child');
        foreach ($sections as $k => $e) {
            echo '<div>' . $k . ' => ' . strip_tags($e) . '</div>';
        }
    }

What I expect:
0 => AB
1 => C
2 => DE

What I got? NOTHING!

By looking at documentation here
https://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.io/docs/1.9/api/simple_html_dom/firstChild/
you can find firstChild() method so i made
~~~
$sections = $html->find('section').firstChild();
~~~
but I got

~~~
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function firstChild() in XXX.php:142 Stack trace: #0 XXX.php(XX): function_name('$html') #1 {main} thrown in XXX.php on line XXX
~~~
So, how to get only the upper levels?
TNX. I love your PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser ❤️😘

PHP 8.x support

2023-02-23T16:05:05.558000Z

My hosting provider now defaults to PHP 8.0 indicating that PHP versions PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.4 are deprecated. It appears that the parser does not work with PHP 8.x Although I can still use this fantastic tool, I would like to see later versions of PHP supported. Is that possible?

Is Github page safe to use for downloads?

2023-01-19T19:30:06.489000Z

Hi!

I was wondering if I could use https://github.com/simplehtmldom/simplehtmldom for downloading specific version for my site during build? Is that maintained by you or somebody you know?

#60 No anchor text returned

2022-08-30T21:21:44.125000Z

I see.
One would use $e->innertext to get the text inside the tag.

No anchor text returned

2022-08-29T23:12:24.965000Z

Given html like
<a href="http://wanlesstennis.com/junior" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Wanless Park Tennis Club</a>

I get returned
[14] => simplehtmldom\HtmlNode Object ( [nodetype] => HDOM_TYPE_ELEMENT (1) [tag] => a [attributes] => Array ( [href] => http://wanlesstennis.com/junior [target] => _blank [rel] => noopener ) [nodes] => none )

Doesn't the anchor text get returned as an attribute with the link? My code is like

$html = $doc->load($url);
$links = [];
foreach($html->find('a') as $e){
$links[] = $e;
}
print_r($links);

#59 Slashdot example updated

2022-04-09T21:55:39.863000Z

status: open --> closed
assigned_to: LogMANOriginal

#58 Is this project active anymore?

2022-04-09T21:49:03.931000Z

status: open --> closed
assigned_to: LogMANOriginal

#56 How to avoid break on 404 errors?

2022-04-09T21:35:24.098000Z

status: open --> closed
assigned_to: LogMANOriginal