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Example of Symfony Crawler
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main.php
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
$html = '<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td width="110" class="lightLink">Last Online</td>
<td>11 hours ago</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Gender</td>
<td>Not specified</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Birthday</td>
<td>Some Date</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Location</td>
<td>California, USA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Website</td>
<td><a href="http://www.example.net" target="_blank">www.example.net</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Join Date</td>
<td>March 5, 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Access Rank</td>
<td>Member</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Anime List Views</td>
<td>432</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="lightLink">Manga List Views</td>
<td>340</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';
$crawler = new Crawler($html);
// Either of these work:
// $crawler = $crawler->filterXPath("//table/tr");
// $crawler = $crawler->filter("table > tr");
$crawler = $crawler->filter("table > tr");
$nodeValues = $crawler->each(
function (Crawler $node, $i) {
$first = $node->children()->first()->text();
$last = $node->children()->last()->text();
return array($first, $last);
}
);
print_r($nodeValues);
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output.txt
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Last Online
[1] => 11 hours ago
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => Gender
[1] => Not specified
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => Birthday
[1] => Some Date
)
[3] => Array
(
[0] => Location
[1] => California, USA
)
[4] => Array
(
[0] => Website
[1] => www.example.net
)
[5] => Array
(
[0] => Join Date
[1] => March 5, 2012
)
[6] => Array
(
[0] => Access Rank
[1] => Member
)
[7] => Array
(
[0] => Anime List Views
[1] => 432
)
[8] => Array
(
[0] => Manga List Views
[1] => 340
)
)
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