I Just discovered domdocument and had previously been using regex..
I need to return the entire form element with all the inputs.
I don't need to create an entire document i just want that part, in a string that I can manipulate. I have been messing with the following chunk of code trying to make it do something useful, but so far, nothing.
Can anyone make sense of this before I go back to regex?
//get HTML into variable
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.openroadlending.com/Apply.aspx?aid=134');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$html=curl_exec($curl);
$dom = new domDocument;
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace=false;
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$body = $xpath->query('html/');
echo var_dump($body);
//echo $body->item(0);
$inputs = $xpath->getElementsByTagName('form');
// foreach($inputs as $in){
// $input = $in->saveHTML;
// //echo $input;
// }
you can use this Function
function DOMinnerHTML($element)
{
$innerHTML = "";
$children = $element->childNodes;
foreach ($children as $child)
{
$tmp_dom = new DOMDocument();
$tmp_dom->appendChild($tmp_dom->importNode($child, true));
$innerHTML.=trim($tmp_dom->saveHTML());
}
return $innerHTML;
}
and use like this
$productspec=$dom->getElementsByTagName('form')
foreach($productspec as $data)
{
echo DOMinnerHTML($data);
}
and You Can Use This function for Get Element By Class
function GetBYClass($Doc,$ClassName){
$finder = new DomXPath($Doc);
return($finder->query("//*[contains(@class, '$ClassName')]"));
}
and This function Is Not Related To This Question But It Useful
function ExtractText($node) {
if($node==NULL)return false;
if (XML_TEXT_NODE === $node->nodeType || XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE === $node->nodeType) {
return $node->nodeValue;
} else if (XML_ELEMENT_NODE === $node->nodeType || XML_DOCUMENT_NODE === $node->nodeType || XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE === $node->nodeType) {
if ('script' === $node->nodeName) return '';
$text = '';
foreach($node->childNodes as $childNode) {
$text .= $this->extractText($childNode);
}
return $text;
}
}
DOMXPath
has no method getElementsByTagName
. You can get to the forms via several methods
getElementsByTagName
$forms = $dom->getElementsByTagName('form');
XPath query
$forms = $xpath->query('//form');
Once you have the form you're after (by selecting it from the $forms
collection or by using a more specialised XPath query), you can get the HTML as a string using
$formHTML = $dom->saveHTML($form);