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Hugo.T
Hugo.T

Reputation: 85

Retrieve the number of 'a' tags between two tags

What I want is to retrieve the number of HTML <a> tags that are between specific <td> tag.

The example is what I have but I don't know how to put the rest in code..

 $dom = new DOMDocument();
 $dom->loadHTML($text);
 $i = 0;
 foreach($dom->getElementsByTagName("td") as $node){
 //Retrieve every TD tag that have the attribute bgcolor = #0051AB
//<td bgcolor=#0051AB> NODEVALUE </td>
   if($node->getAttribute("bgcolor") == "#0051AB"){
     $cat[]= $node->nodeValue;
   }
//HERE identify every 'a' html tag that are between the $node and the next one!!
//<a href="path">nodeValue</a>


 }

Example

<table><tr><td bgcolor=#0051AB>Project 1</td></tr></table>
<a>link1</a>
other tags and text..
<a>Link 2</a>
enter code here
<table><tr><td bgcolor=#0051AB>Project 2</td></tr></table>
codecodecode
<a>link3</a>
codecodecode

The result I need: (0 = name of the td nodeValue, 1 = number of tags before the next node) 

Array => (
   Array[0] => ([0] => Project1, [1] => 2 ),
   Array[1] => ([0] => Project2, [1] => 1 )
)

Thanks for your advice.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 114

Answers (2)

mmcachran
mmcachran

Reputation: 484

Simple HTML DOM is easy to use.

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

foreach($html->find('td') as $td) {
       $td_value = $td->plaintext;
      foreach($td->find('a') as $anchor) {
            ...
      }
}

Upvotes: 2

Muhammad Haseeb Khan
Muhammad Haseeb Khan

Reputation: 895

I'll prefer QueryPath For This Requirement over PHP DOM; Why? it's different discussion.

Below Is the solution of your problem.

Download QueryPath And Just include in your PHP file.

require("../../QueryPath\QueryPath.php");

Following Is the example HTML for Parsing

$text="<body>
<table><tr><td bgcolor=#0051AB>Project 1</td></tr></table>
<a>link1</a>
 other tags and text..
<a>Link 2</a>
enter code here
<table><tr><td >Project 2</td></tr></table>
codecodecode
<a> Should Not Be Included</a>
codecodecode
<table><tr><td bgcolor=#0051AB>Project 2</td></tr></table>
codecodecode
<a>link3</a>
codecodecode</body>";

Code To Parse HTML

 $tags=htmlqp($text,'body')->children();
 $isRequiredTag=false;
 $i=0;
 foreach($tags as $pr)
 {
 $tag= $pr->tag();
 if($tag=='table'){
 $isRequiredTag= (htmlqp($text,$tag)->eq($i)->find('td')-  >attr('bgcolor')=='#0051AB')?"TRUE":"FALSE";
 $i++;
 }

 if ($isRequiredTag=="TRUE" && $tag=='a') echo $pr->text();

 }

Upvotes: 3

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