I want to get some data from some html pages that I have and then store the data in the database.
The HTML file has a list of blogs and they are organized like this:
<div class="breadlist"></div>
<h3 class="list"><a href="http://test1.com">Title 1</a></h3>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> Description 1.<br>
<strong>Author:</strong> Author1<br>
<strong>XML:</strong> <a href="http://test1.com/feed">Title 1</a><br>
<strong>Language:</strong> Language1</p>
<h3 class="list"><a href="http://test2.com">Title 2</a></h3>
<p><strong>Description:</strong>Description 2. <br>
<strong>Author:</strong> Author1<br>
<strong>XML:</strong> <a href="http://test2.com/feed">Title 2</a>
<strong>Language:</strong> Español</p>
<div class="breadlist"></div>
In this example, there are 2 blogs, but sometimes there are 10 or even 100 blogs. Every file has a different amount. I would like to get this data:
Website Address, Title, Description, Author, Feed, Language.
I was trying to do it with PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser, but today is the first time I was trying and couldn’t get anywhere. I imagine I have to loop something but don’t know how to do it. Anybody have any idea how to do it with PHP? Thanks!
—-EDIT—-
This is what I’ve tried so far:
$str = <<<HTML
<div class="breadlist"></div>
<h3 class="list"><a href="http://test1.com">Title 1</a></h3>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> Description 1.<br>
<strong>Author:</strong> Author1<br>
<strong>XML:</strong> <a href="http://test1.com/feed">Title 1</a><br>
<strong>Language:</strong> Language1</p>
<h3 class="list"><a href="http://test2.com">Title 2</a></h3>
<p><strong>Description:</strong>Description 2. <br>
<strong>Author:</strong> Author1<br>
<strong>XML:</strong> <a href="http://test2.com/feed">Title 2</a>
<strong>Language:</strong> Español</p>
<div class="breadlist"></div>
HTML;
$html = str_get_html($str);
foreach($html->find('h3[class=list]') as $title){
echo "Title: " . $title->innertext . "<br />";
}
foreach($html->find('h3[class=list] a') as $address){
echo "Address: " . $address->href . "<br />";
}
foreach($html->find('p') as $description){
echo "Description: " . $description->childNodes(3)->plaintext . "<br />"; //doesnt work
}
foreach($html->find('p a') as $feed){
echo "Feed: " . $feed->href . "<br />";
}
foreach($html->find('h3[class=list] a') as $language){
echo "Language: " . $language->innertext . "<br />"; // doesnt work
}
I couldn’t find a way to do it so I just did a find, replace and modify it in a way that could use the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser