PHP Simple HTML Dom not Working fine

Question

Here is my code:

include('simple_html_dom.php');
$page = file_get_html($_REQUEST['url']);
$page = $page->find('table[class=cf-table-style sorted]',0)->find('tbody',0);
echo ($page);

echo $page is suppose to print HTML but it prints a Array, which means find('tbody',0) is returning array. It shouldn't do like that i think

Where is error in my code.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:20

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I believe the find function returns array no matter what. Just echo the first element: echo($page[0]);

answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:20

Smok

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i don't think so, find('tbody') will return Array but find('tbody',0) will return first element of array – Wasim A. Sep 04 '12 at 12:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:20

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You need to extract it using foreach and then echo e.g

foreach($page as pg){
echo pg;
}

try this it may work.

answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:20

Basha Man

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you're missing `$` sign in front of your vars. – Smok Sep 04 '12 at 12:21

Igor Parra · Answer 3 · 2012-09-04T13:08:08.697

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$page = $page->find('table[class=cf-table-style sorted]',0)->find('tbody',0)->innertext;

EDIT 1

innertext returns HTML! Try it in this way:

$chunk = $page->find('table[class=cf-table-style sorted] tbody',0)->innertext;

echo $chunk;

edited Sep 04 '12 at 13:08

answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:20

Igor Parra

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i need html, not inner or plain text – Wasim A. Sep 04 '12 at 12:42
@wasim innertext returns HTML! I edited my answer with another snippet. – Igor Parra Sep 04 '12 at 13:09

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:22

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Try this:

$page = $page->find('table[class=cf-table-style sorted]',0)->find('tbody',0)->plaintext;
print_r($page);

answered Sep 04 '12 at 12:22

Vinay

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i need to move forward, i don't need plaintext, i need html – Wasim A. Sep 04 '12 at 12:41
Use innertext instead of plaintext. Refer [Doc](http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm#frag_access_special) – Vinay Sep 04 '12 at 12:43

PHP Simple HTML Dom not Working fine

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