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Use PHP parsing to write out contents between tags

I'm trying to "echo" the contents inside my "" tag to the page using the getArticles function below. It doesn't seem to want to write it out. The function and only part of the HTML are below. What am I doing wrong?

// HTML
My Test
**************************************************************
// FUNCTION
function getArticles($page) {

global $articles;

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file($page);
 //echo $html;

 $items = $html->find("span[class=clr2 b]");

 foreach($items as $post) {

 # remember comments count as nodes
 // outertext
 // innertext
 // plaintext
 $articles[] = array($post->children(0)->outertext);


 }

foreach($articles as $item) {
echo $item[0];

}
}

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Dave Baldwin

I'm not sure why you are doing all of that. I just put it in the page where I need it.

<span class='clr2 b'><?php echo $article; ?></span>

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saturation

ASKER

It's because I don't have direct access to the page, and I'm just trying to get used to handling a parser, so I don't have a choice--the data is already written out to the page.

Dave Baldwin

What are you getting on the screen right now?

saturation

ASKER

Nothing....Here's the full code:

// TEST.HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
My Test
</body>
</html>

// INDEX.HTML
include('simple_html_dom.php');

$articles = array();
getArticles('test.html');

// SIMPLE_HTML_DOM.PHP -- THIS PAGE DOES WORK, I DIDN'T INCLUDE ALL OF THE CODE. I
function getArticlesCars($page) {

global $articles;

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file($page);

 $items = $html->find("span[class=clr2 b]");

 foreach($items as $post) {

 # remember comments count as nodes
 // outertext
 // innertext
 // plaintext
 $articles[] = array($post->children(0)->outertext);
 }

foreach($articles as $item) {
echo $item[0];
}
}

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