PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser: API Reference

# PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser Manual

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## API Reference

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Helper functions

Name | Description
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object str_get_html ( string $content ) | Creates a DOM object from a string.
object file_get_html ( string $filename ) | Creates a DOM object from a file or a URL.

DOM methods & properties

Name | Description
--- | ---
void __construct ( [string $filename] ) | Constructor, set the filename parameter will automatically load the contents, either text or file/url.
string plaintext | Returns the contents extracted from HTML.
void clear () | Clean up memory.
void load ( string $content ) | Load contents from a string.
string save ( [string $filename] ) | Dumps the internal DOM tree back into a string. If the $filename is set, result string will save to file.
void load_file ( string $filename ) | Load contents from a from a file or a URL.
void set_callback ( string $function_name ) | Set a callback function.
mixed find ( string $selector [, int $index] ) | Find elements by the CSS selector. Returns the Nth element object if index is set, otherwise return an array of object.

Element methods & properties

Name | Description
--- | ---
string [attribute] | Read or write element's attribure value.
string tag | Read or write the tag name of element.
string outertext | Read or write the outer HTML text of element.
string innertext | Read or write the inner HTML text of element.
string plaintext | Read or write the plain text of element.
mixed find ( string $selector [, int $index] ) | Find children by the CSS selector. Returns the Nth element object if index is set, otherwise, return an array of object.

DOM traversing

Name | Description
--- | ---
mixed $e->children ( [int $index] ) | Returns the Nth child object if index is set, otherwise return an array of children.
element $e->parent () | Returns the parent of element.
element $e->first_child () | Returns the first child of element, or null if not found.
element $e->last_child () | Returns the last child of element, or null if not found.
element $e->next_sibling () | Returns the next sibling of element, or null if not found.
element $e->prev_sibling () | Returns the previous sibling of element, or null if not found.

## Camel naming convertions

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You can also call methods with W3C STANDARD camel naming convertions.

Method | Mapping
--- | ---
array $e->getAllAttributes () | array $e->attr
string $e->getAttribute ( $name ) | string $e->attribute
void $e->setAttribute ( $name, $value ) | void $value = $e->attribute
bool $e->hasAttribute ( $name ) | bool isset($e->attribute)
void $e->removeAttribute ( $name ) | void $e->attribute = null
element $e->getElementById ( $id ) | mixed $e->find ( "#$id", 0 )
mixed $e->getElementsById ( $id [,$index] ) | mixed $e->find ( "#$id" [, int $index] )
element $e->getElementByTagName ($name ) | mixed $e->find ( $name, 0 )
mixed $e->getElementsByTagName ( $name [, $index] ) | mixed $e->find ( $name [, int $index] )
element $e->parentNode () | element $e->parent ()
mixed $e->childNodes ( [$index] ) | mixed $e->children ( [int $index] )
element $e->firstChild () | element $e->first_child ()
element $e->lastChild () | element $e->last_child ()
element $e->nextSibling () | element $e->next_sibling ()
element $e->previousSibling () | element $e->prev_sibling ()

Author: S.C. Chen (me578022@gmail.com)
Original idea is from Jose Solorzano's HTML Parser for PHP 4.
Contributions by: Contributions by: Yousuke Kumakura, Vadim Voituk, Antcs