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getting element content with simpe-html-dom

I'm using simpile_html_dom for getting html pages elements. I have some div elements like this. All i want is to get "Fine Thanks" sentence in each div (that is not inside any sub-element). How can i do it? 

<div class="right">
<h2>
<a href="">Hello</a>
</h2>
<br/>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
Fine Thanks
</div>
Solution

  • There is no built in method to read text property in simple_html_dom.php
    But this should work;

    include 'parser.php';

$html = str_get_html('<div class="right">
<h2>
<a href="">Hello</a>
</h2>
<br/>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
<span>How Are You?</span>
Fine Thanks
</div>');

function readTextNode($element){
    $local = $element;
    $childs = count($element->childNodes());
    for($i = 0; $i < $childs; $i++)
        $local->childNodes($i)->outertext = '';
    return $local->innertext;
}

echo readTextNode($html->find('div.right',0));