Question

What is the way to get first three words of a span class using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.
Assuming source code of a fetched page is:

Some Text <span class="sos"> Good Better Best <i> Some text</i> here</span> Again some text here

Using php simple html dom parser we can get all content of a span class like this way:

$data = $html->find('span class="sos"');

so here, $data will declare full content of that span class.
What i wanna do is to get only the first three words of a span class in a new variable, so in this case it should be:

$new_data = 'Good Better Best';

How to do it?
PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser Manual

Answer 1

as you have commented @billyonecan post , sounds like your solution is:

$result = str_get_html($result);
foreach($html->find('.sos') as $xdat)
{
$x_des = implode(' ', array_slice(explode(' ', strip_tags($xdat)), 0, 3));
$result = str_replace($x_des, ' ', $result);
$result = str_get_html($result);
}

change all variables according to your needs.