Get all HTML comments on website with html simple dom

Question

I've tried to grab all the comments from a website (The text between ), but without luck.

Here is my current code:

include('simple_html_dom.php');
$html = file_get_html('THE URL');
foreach($html->find('comment') as $element)
    echo $element->plaintext;

Anyone have any ideas how to grab the comments, at the moment it's only giving me a blank page

Did you tried to print $html's value before foreach to make sure that it is loaded successfully? — artahian
– artahian, Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 20:20
It seems it works fine, but as you are doing echo and it outputs html comment, browser doesn't show it. Try to do var_dump($element->plaintext); to make sure that there is a value. — artahian
– artahian, Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 21:55

Teja Kantamneni · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-20 20:21:33Z

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I know regex is not supposed to parse HTML, but  you can use a similar regex to find and fetch the comments...

answered Mar 20, 2013 at 20:21

Teja Kantamneni

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Yes comments are easily parsable with regex