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#46 Access to array of matched elements

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:02:05 -0000

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

Hi Man O ManaO — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 02:50:51 -0000

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

Hi Man O ManaO — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:52:00 -0000

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

DennisKmetz — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:05:05 -0000

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?

hkirsman — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:30:06 -0000

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

Jim Longo — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:21:44 -0000

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

No anchor text returned

Jim Longo — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:12:24 -0000

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

LogMANOriginal — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:55:39 -0000

status: open --> closed
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#58 Is this project active anymore?

LogMANOriginal — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:49:03 -0000

status: open --> closed
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#56 How to avoid break on 404 errors?

LogMANOriginal — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:35:24 -0000

status: open --> closed
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