On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 08:11 -0600, Peter Pei wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:58:44 -0600, Ashley Sheridan
> <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:29 -0400, tedd wrote:
> >
> >> Hi gang:
> >>
> >> Here's the problem.
> >>
> >> I have 184 HTML pages in a directory and each page contain a
> >> question. The question is noted in the HTML DOM like so:
> >>
> >> <p class="question">
> >> Who is Roger Rabbit?
> >> </p>
> >>
> >> My question is -- how can I extract the string "Who is Roger Rabbit?"
> >> from each page using php? You see, I want to store the questions in a
> >> database without having to re-type, or cut/paste, each one.
> >>
> >> Now, I can extract each question by using javascript --
> >>
> >> document.getElementById("question").innerHTML;
> >>
> >> -- and stepping through each page, but I don't want to use javascript
> >> for this.
> >>
> >> I have not found/created a working example of this using PHP. I tried
> >> using PHP's getElementByID(), but that requires the target file to be
> >> valid xml and the string to be contained within an ID and not a
> >> class. These pages do not support either requirement.
> >>
> >> Additionally, I realize that I can load the files and parse out what
> >> is between the <p> tags, but I was hoping for a "GetElementByClass"
> >> way to do this.
> >>
> >> So, is there one?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> tedd
> >> --
> >> -------
> >> http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com
> >>
> >
> >
> > I don't think there is a getElementsByClass function. HTML5 is proposing
> > one, but that will most likely be implemented in Javascript before PHP
> > Dom. There is a way to tidy up the HTML to make it XHTML, but I'm not
> > sure what it is. If you know roughly where in the document the HTML
> > snippet is you can use XPath to grab it.
> >
> > Failing that, what about a regex? It shouldn't be too hard to write a
> > regex to match your example above.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
>
> Somejavascript engine already support GetElementByClass, for example Opera
> does.
>
> --
> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
>
Yes, because Opera is pretty much leading the way with its HTML5
support. Not even Firefox supports as much as Opera does.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
