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Asked: 2026-05-27T09:52:03+00:00

I am using CURL to fetch form and store it in a field ..,

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I am using CURL to fetch form and store it in a field 

..,
$str = curl_exec($ch);

The $str HTML has a textarea as follows

<td class="fntc">
Description
</td>
<td class="ffc">
<textarea name="descri" rows="6" class="emf" maxlength="128000">fictional.</textarea>
</td>
</tr>

Now I am trying to use a dom to fetch this area and was unsuccessful

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($str);

// Get all the textarea field nodes
$inputs = $dom->getElementsByTagName('textarea');
// Iterate over the input fields and save the values we want to an array
foreach ($inputs as $input) {
    $name = $input->getAttribute('name');
    $val = $input->getAttribute('value');
    $field_vals[$name] = $val;
}

But i am unable to get the value.Is there anything i am doing wrong here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since a <textarea> contains text inside the tag, rather than in a value attribute, you may access it with nodeValue:

    $val = $input->nodeValue;

    Update

    Ok, I’ve verified this now:

    $d = new DOMDocument();
$d->loadHTML("<html><head></head><body><textarea>textarea contents</textarea></body></html>");
$t = $d->getElementsByTagName("textarea");
foreach ($t as $tx) {
  echo $tx->nodeValue;
}

// Prints
// textarea contents
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