Question

Im trying to get td fields from a table with the id sid-120390923 or sid-38737122 ignoring any other id value in the table, however the problem is that I can not get these td fields because they all have a slightly different id but with the same start (‘sid’).

what I want is to be able to grab all the td fields with the starting id sid-, would there be a way to incorporate regex?

here is an example

html

<table>
   <tr>
      <td id='9sd'></td>
      <td id='10sd'></td>
      <td id='sid-1239812983'></td>
      <td id='sid-1454345345'></td>
      <td id='sid-2342345234'></td>
      <td id='sid-5656433455'></td>
      <td id='sid-1231235664'></td>
      <td id='sid-8986757575'></td>
      <td id='sid-1232134551'></td>
   </tr>
</table>

simple_html_dom

$table = $con->find('table');

foreach($table->find('td#sid-1232134551') as $field){
   echo $field."<br>";
}

Answer 1

You can use attribute filters (the 5. tab),

$table->find('td[id^=sid-]');