Parse HTML using PHP

Last updated on May 10th, 2016 at 01:39 am

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HTML is merely a subset of XML, so if you are aware of how to parse a xml file using php then this script will be easy to understand.

Refer these scripts below. This will be helpful for parsing xml files using php.

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Here we are going to parse a Webpage having simple HTML tags like table, tr etc.,

Lets name the HTML page as Simple_Webpage.html and add the below code.

<html>
       <body>
             <table><tr>
                          <td><b>Country</b></td> 
                          <td><b>Temp {F}</b></td>
                          <td><b>Current Status</b></td> 
                     </tr>
                     <tr>
                          <td>United States</td> 
                          <td>74</td>
                          <td>Sunny</td> 
                     </tr>
                     <tr>
                          <td>United Kingdom</td> 
                          <td>65</td>
                          <td>Sunny</td> 
                     </tr>
					 
					 <tr>
                          <td>India</td> 
                          <td>94</td>
                          <td>Sunny</td> 
                     </tr>

             </table>    
       </body>
 </html>

Now we are going to parse the above HTML webpage using the below php code.

<html><body><title>Parse HTML Demo</title><?php
  // new dom object
  $dom = new DOMDocument();

  //load the html
  $html = $dom->loadHTMLFile('Simple_Webpage.html');

  //discard white space 
  $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false; 

  //the table by its tag name
  $tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table'); 

  //get all rows from the table
  $rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr'); 

  // loop over the table rows
  foreach ($rows as $row) 
  { 
   // get each column by tag name
      $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td'); 
   // echo the values  
      echo $cols->item(0)->nodeValue.'<br />'; 
      echo $cols->item(1)->nodeValue.'<br />'; 
      echo $cols->item(2)->nodeValue.'<hr>';;
    } 

?>
</body>
</html>

Demo

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