Question

I am playing around with xpath, but have no Idea how to for example get a title from a website using xpath, here is my code but I don’t know what to do next…

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTMLFile("http://www.cool.de");

$x=new DOMXPath($dom);
$result = $x->query("//TITLE");

//...???

and print_r($result) shows me only “Object”, is there a function like print_r to see what is inside an object so I don’t have to guess?

Answer 1

$result is a DOMNodeList

echo $result->item(0)->textContent

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Edit: xpath is case sensitive – dom nodes must be lower case:

echo $x->query('//title')->item(0)->textContent

This now works