README

This is an HTML parser with a minimal DOM implementation. It doesn't depend on PHP's bundled libxml and DOM and handles some of the broken markup encountered in the wild.

Usage example

<?php
use \gaswelder\htmlparser\Parser;
use \gaswelder\htmlparser\ParsingException;

try {
	$doc = Parser::parse($html);
} catch(ParsingException $e) {
	// ...
	return;
}

$images = $doc->querySelectorAll('#posts .post img');
foreach ($images as $img) {
	$src = $img->getAttribute('src');
	echo $src, "\n";
}

Features

All container nodes (DocumentNode and ElementNode) have the querySelector and querySelectorAll methods which support a limited subset of CSS2:

• type selectors (like div)
• some attribute selectors ([checked], [attr="val"], [attr$="val"], [attr^="val"])
• class selectors (.active)
• ID selectors (#main)

Also they support these combinators:

• descendant (ul li)
• child (ul > li)
• sibling (li + li)

The nodes can be printed to the console, and the output will be similar to Firefox's console:

<?php
$list = $doc->getElementsByTagName('a');
echo $list, PHP_EOL;

might produce this output:

NodeList [ <a>, <a#top>, <a.first>, <a>, <a> ]

Installation

Composer dudes do this in the console:

composer require gaswelder/htmlparser

Old-school dudes (if still alive) may download the library to whatever $libdir they have and do this:

require "$libdir/htmlparser/init.php";