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PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser - select div with multiple classes

Posted on 2012-12-21

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Hi,

I have a div:

<div class="mada rock rolling">Amateur question</div>

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I want to find this div with the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.

The following code does not work:

$html->find('div.mada.rock.rolling');

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Can you help me, brothers and sisters? :)

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Question by:potworny

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by:gr8gonzo

ID: 387134432012-12-21

Try:

$html->find('div[class=mada rock rolling]');

or try:

$html->find('div.mada .rock .rolling');

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by:brendonfeeley

ID: 387134452012-12-21

This might help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2571232/parse-html-with-phps-html-domdocument

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by:jkdt0077

ID: 387135082012-12-21

If above don't work:

$html->find('div[class=.mada.rock.rolling]');

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by:potworny

ID: 387141532012-12-21

brendonfeeley, I am looking at your answer :)

gr8gonzo, jkdt0077, this does not work:

$html->find("div[class='mada rock rolling']");
$html->find("div[class='mada .rock .rolling']")
$html->find('div[class=.mada.rock.rolling]');
$html->find('div.mada .rock .rolling');

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by:mcnute

ID: 387153582012-12-22

This here seams quite simple:

simple html parser

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by:brendonfeeley

ID: 387153662012-12-22

What about these:

$html->find('div.mada, div.rock, div.rolling');

$html->find('div[class=mada], div[class=rock], div[class=rolling]');

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by:brendonfeeley

ID: 387153962012-12-22

Also, and forgive me if you know this, but:

$html->find('div.mada, div.rock, div.rolling');

Will return an array of matches. In order to output all matches, you will need to loop through them:

foreach($html->find('div.mada, div.rock, div.rolling') as $element) {
echo $element->plaintext . '<br/>';
}

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by:potworny

ID: 387248212012-12-27

I don't think this lib can parse more than one class name...

I just load the HTML into a variable, replace the three classes with one name of my own and parse the modififed version of the HTML. :)

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by:gr8gonzo

gr8gonzo earned 500 total points

ID: 387334662012-12-31

Sorry - I was away on vacation but just got back and checking on this. It looks like you didn't use my code.

I suggested:
$html->find('div[class=mada rock rolling]');

You said you tried:
$html->find("div[class='mada rock rolling']");

Notice that I did not have the single quotes inside mine. I just tried my suggestion and it worked.

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by:potworny

ID: 387373622013-01-02

THANK you very much :)

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