Reputation: 804
I'm using simple html dom in php to extract a table depending on its id. I have done this without any issues when the id doesn't involve any characters like hyphens(-). I suspect it is due to a hyphen because I used the same code with an id with no hyphens and no trouble receiving the data. The data I want to extract is also in a tab that is hidden, does this effect the process?
Here is my code
<?php
include('simple_html_dom.php');
//Insert the url you want to extract data from
$html = file_get_html('http://espnfc.com/team/_/id/359/arsenal?cc=5739');
$i = 0;
$dataInTable = true;
while($dataInTable){
if($html->find('div[id=ui-tabs-1] table tbody', 0)->children(0)->children($i)){
for($j=0;$j<3;$j++){
if($html->find('div[id=ui-tabs-1] table tbody', 0)->children(0)->children($i)->children($j)){
$gk[] = $html->find('div[id=ui-tabs-1] table tbody', 0)->children(0)->children($i)->children($j)->plaintext;
}else{
$dataInTable = false;
}
}
//else if nothing is in the next cell return false.
}else{
$dataInTable = false;
}
$i+=2;
}
var_dump($gk);
?>
Here is the HTML content
Upvotes: 1
Views: 531
Reputation: 117334
When you take a look at the source(not via dev-tools, use browser->viewsource) of http://espnfc.com/team/_/id/359/arsenal?cc=5739 you'll not see anything with the ID ui-tabs-1
This element has been created via javascript(I guess jQueryUI-tabs)
simple_html_dom
parses HTML but did not evaluate javascript, so the answer is:
You can't select this element
Upvotes: 2