Question

I am trying to pull only the alt value from the img tag using the simple php html dom parser. I cannot seem to get it to just pull the alt tag. Here is what I am using:

foreach($html->find('ul.sellerInformation img', 0) as $element) {    
    $ret['SoldBy'] = $element->alt; 
}

It works and pulls the entire image tag if I use:

$ret['SoldBy'] = $html->find('ul.sellerInformation img', 0)->outertext;

But all I really want is the information in the alt tag.

I am trying to pull from html at the Amazon offer listing page at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001H8QHG0

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I’m assuming that you’re tying to get the value of the alt attribute here not the alt tag.
If so, you can use the getAttribute method.

$altValue = $html->find('ul.sellerInformation img', 0)->getAttribute('alt');