Question

I need to read and parse HTML file inside php code (on server side).
As much as I know, the easiest way to read html for choose nodes and nodes’ childrens, is to use jQueries.
Can I include in php code jQueries for open an HTML file, read it, and return to the php code array object?
Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You cannot use javascript (jQuery) server side, because it is client side, Browser based.

The easiest way to read and parse HTML is DOMDocument, eg:

$html = new DOMDocument(); 
$html->loadHTMLFile('http://www.example.org'); 
$links = array(); 
foreach($html->getElementsByTagName('a') as $link) { 
    $links[] = array('url' => $link->getAttribute('href'), 'text' => $link->nodeValue); 
} 
var_export($links);