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michael
michael

Reputation: 71

PHP - count li elements inside ul

i'm searching for a way to count dynamic li elements inside an ul in php (not js).

For example:

<ul>

  <li> lorem </li>

  <li> ipsum </li>

  <li> dolor </li>

  <li> sit </li>

</ul>

would return me the number 4. (am i too stupid to use proper code here?)

Is there some way to accomplish that in php?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:

The markup is generated by a cms system, the count should be placed before the list, inside the template file.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13090

Answers (4)

thwd
thwd

Reputation: 24818

You can do a very simple Substring Count for <li> (or -li-) on that string and it would return the number of items.

Edit:

$count = substr_count($html,'<li>'); //where $html holds your piece of HTML.

Upvotes: 12

Itai Sagi
Itai Sagi

Reputation: 5615

Your answer lies with DOMDocument.

For example:

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom -> loadHTML("<ul><li></li><li></li></ul>");
$li = $dom->getElementsByTagName("li");
foreach ($li as $li_c){
$i++;
}
echo $i;

Upvotes: 4

Astha
Astha

Reputation: 1734

Use PHP's DOM library, or look up Simple DOM Parser. It contain searches for HTML

Upvotes: 0

alex
alex

Reputation: 490233

Assuming this HTML is not output by you (otherwise it should be trivial to count the number of elements), you could use PHP's DOMDocument.

$dom = new DOMDocument;

$dom->loadHTML($str);

foreach($dom->getElementsByTagName('ul') as $ul) {

   $count = $ul->getElementsByTagName('li')->length;

   var_dump($count);

}

CodePad.

This code will count the number of li elements in each ul element. If you don't care about individual ul elements, just use $dom->getElementsByTagName('li')->length.

Upvotes: 6

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