simple_html_dom parser : filter found tag

Question

I would like to parse code with structure like this :

<p class=class1>
 <i>.</i>
 <b>..</b>
<a class=class2></a>
</p>

and i need to get whole content of <p> but only without <a> tags with. I need to keep there all the other tags like <i> or <b> How can i do it?

Now i have just this code :

 $content = $page->find('p[class=class1]');
 foreach($content as $text)
  {
    $inner=$text->innertext();
  }    

it´s able to find whole content with <a> tags. And

Answer 1

You could loop the child nodes and check the nodeName(). If that is an a, you could set the outertext to an empty string:

Try it like this:

$data = <<<DATA
<p class=class1>
 content
 <div>test</div>
 <i>.</i>
 <b>..</b>
<a class=class2></a>
</p>
DATA;
$html = str_get_html($data);

foreach($html->find('p.class1') as $element) {
    foreach ($element->children as $child) {
        if ($child->nodeName() === "a") {
            $child->outertext = '';
        }
    }
}

echo $html->save();

That would give you:

<p class=class1> content <div>test</div> <i>.</i> <b>..</b> </p>

Or if you want to remove all (nested) anchors:

foreach ($html->find('p.class1 a') as $element) {
    $element->outertext = '';
}