Question

Can anyone tell why the second if statement pulling the soldby name wouldn’t work properly?

What I want it to do is name pull the alt attribute from the image, if there is an image for the seller – which works. But if there isn’t an image logo, there is a bold tag with the seller name which I want to be inserted in the same place in the array that the alt tag would be.

The HTML I am working with is: http:// amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002UYSHMM

Can anyone help?

Thank you!

$item = array();

foreach ($html->find('div.resultsset table tbody.result tr') as $article) { 
  if ($article->find('span.price', 0)) {  
    // get retail  
    $item[$retail.$i++] = $article->find('span.price', 0)->plaintext;  
    // get soldby
    if ($article->find('ul.sellerInformation img', 0)) {
      $item[$soldby.$j++] = $article->find('ul.sellerInformation img', 0)->getAttribute('alt');
    } else {
      $item[$soldby.$j++] = $article->find('ul.sellerInformation li a b', 0)->plaintext;
    }
    $ret['SellerInfo'] = $item;
  }
}

Here is the array I get out of my code above:

 Array ( [0] => Array ( [Retail] => $219.88 [SoldBy] => J&R Music and Computer World ) [1] => Array ( [Retail] => $234.21 [SoldBy] => PORTABLE GUY ) [2] => Array ( [Retail] => $235.73 [SoldBy] => The Price Pros ) [3] => Array ( [Retail] => $234.74 [SoldBy] => GizmosForLife ) [4] => Array ( [Retail] => $230.00 [SoldBy] => ) [5] => Array ( [Retail] => $198.73 [SoldBy] => ) [6] => Array ( [Retail] => $240.72 [SoldBy] => ) [7] => Array ( [Retail] => $248.99 [SoldBy] => onSale ) ) 

You can see that it is missing SoldBy for:

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Diakonos23

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Answer 1

Figured it out:

foreach($html->find('div.resultsset table tbody.result tr') as $article) { 
if($article->find('span.price', 0)) {  
// get retail  
$item['Retail'] = $article->find('span.price', 0)->plaintext;  
// get soldby  
if($article->find('img', 0)->getAttribute('alt') <> '') {
$item['SoldBy'] = $article->find('img', 0)->getAttribute('alt'); }
else {$item['SoldBy'] = $article->find('ul.sellerInformation li a b', 0)->plaintext;}
$ret[] = $item; 
 }
}