PHP-DOMDocument: need to search for an element with attribute class=“something” [very easy example]

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hello dear Community, 8)

Again: first of all: felize Navidad - I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas!!

i’m trying to debug a little DOMDocument object in PHP. Ideally it’d be nice if I could get DOMDocument to output in a array-like format, to store the data in a database!

My example: head over to the url -
see the example: click the following target Bildungsserver Hessen - Siegfried-Pickert Schule

I investigated the Sourcecode: Note, I want to filter out the data that that is in the following class <div class=“floatbox”>

See the **sourcecode: **


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<a class="navLink" href="http://dms-schule.bildung.hessen.de/suchen/index.html" title="Suchformulare zum hessischen schulischen Bildungssystem">suche</a>
              </div>
            </div>
          <!-- begin of text -->
           <h3>Siegfried-Pickert Schule</h3>
 <div class="floatbox">

See my approach: Here is the solution return the labels and values in a formatted array ready for input to mysql!


<?php

$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://dms-schule.bildung.hessen.de/suchen/suche_schul_db.html?show_school=8880');
$divElement = $dom->getElementById('floatbox');

$innerHTML= '';
$children = $divElement->childNodes;
foreach ($children as $child) {
$innerHTML = $child->ownerDocument->saveXML( $child );

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($innerHTML);
//$divElementNew = $dom->getElementsByTagName('td');
$divElementNew = $dom->getElementsByTagname('td');

    /*** the array to return ***/
    $out = array();
    foreach ($divElementNew as $item)
    {
        /*** add node value to the out array ***/
        $out] = $item->nodeValue;
    }

echo '<pre>';
print_r($out);
echo '</pre>';

}

well Duhh: this outputs lot of garbage. The code spits out a lot of html anyway.
What can i do to get a more cleaned up code!?

Question: What is wrong with the idea of using this attribute:

 $dom->getElementById('floatbox');

any idea!? Can anybody have a look at the code and review it. I need to debug it a bit!

Any and all help will greatly appreciated.

season-greetings
db1 :wink:

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Hello dear friends,

after looking at the code i found out:

 $dom->getElementById('floatbox');

in original html it’s not an id, it’s a class.

So i have to rewrite like so:

$divElement = $dom->getElementByClass('floatbox');

i will check out this solution

i come back and report all my findings

regards
db1