PHP Simple HTML DOM

Question

I'm trying to access a H1 tag from a html source I am retrieving with PHP CURL.

I'm trying to access the last line (line 63): <h1>Your referrals (5 complete / 0 pending / 9999 total)</h1>

Here is the part of the code that the php simple html dom is using

$result1 = curl_exec ($ch1);
curl_close($ch1);   
echo $result1;


$html = str_get_html($result1);

$main = $html->find('h1', 3); 
foreach($main as $element) 
   echo $element->innertext . '<br>';

But it's just bringing back the whole HTML

->find() returns an array only if you didn't specify the 2nd parameter. if you do, it returns a dom node. — Marc B
– Marc B, Commented Nov 25, 2013 at 18:25

ThW · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-25 18:34:29Z

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It is easy with DOMDocument, you can fetch the text content inside an element:

$result1 = curl_exec ($ch1);
curl_close($ch1);   
echo $result1;

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($result1);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);

echo $xpath->evaluate('string(//section[@id="your_referrals"]/h1)');

answered Nov 25, 2013 at 18:34

ThW

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BCLtd Over a year ago

This is perfect, I have gone around in circles trying to do this. Thanks for taking the time.

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