Question

Hey I have a problem with Simple DOM parser which is driving me nuts.

This works OK:

foreach($html->find('input[name=sex]') as $e)
echo $e->value;

Even if its only 1 result.

However this doesn’t work:

echo $html->find('input[name=sex]')->value;

I don’t want really use foreach because I expect only 1 result.
So someone could help me with second block of code?

Cheers

Answer 1

According to the docs, the second parameter is the index you wish to find. Set that to 0 to return the first (0th) element rather than an array of objects:

Find elements by the CSS selector. Returns the Nth element object if index is set, otherwise return an array of object.

$html->find('input[name=sex]', 0)->value;