Question

I load a html page with PHP Dom Document :

$doc = new DOMDocument();
@$doc->loadHTMLFile($url);

I search in my page all "a" elements, and if they realize my condition i need to replace for example <a href="blablablabla">My link is beautiful</a> by just My link is beautiful

Here my loop :

$liens = $div->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach($liens as $lien){
    if($lien->hasAttribute('href')){
        if (preg_match("/metz2/i", $lien->getAttribute('href'))) {
        //HERE I NEED TO REPLACE </a>           
        }
        $cpt++;
    }
}

Do you have any ideas ? Suggestions ? Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

Every time i need to manage DOM with PHP, i use a framework called PHP Simple HTLM DOM parser. (Link here)

It’s very easy to use, something like this might work for you:

// Create DOM from URL or file
$html = file_get_html('http://www.page.com/');

// Find all links 
foreach($html->find('a') as $element) {
    //Do your custom logic here if you need it, for example this extracts the inner contents of the a-tag, and puts it freely.
    $inner = $element->innertext;
    $element->outertext($inner);
}

//To echo modified html again:
echo $html;