I'm trying to parse DOM with Simple HTML DOM Parser in PHP. Parsed content are movies, so I want to get every genre there is, but when i run my code I only get the last genre, not all. My code looks like this:
if ($obj) {
foreach($obj as $key => $data) {
$item['url'] = 'http://geo.saitebi.ge/movie/' . $page;
$item['poster'] = 'http://geo.saitebi.ge/web/ka/img/movies/' . $page . '/240x340/' . $page . '.jpg';
$item['geotitle'] = $data->find('div.movie-item-title', 0)->plaintext;
$item['englishtitle'] = $data->find('div.movie-item-title-en', 0)->plaintext;
$item['year'] = $data->find('div.movie-item-year', 0)->plaintext;
foreach($data->find('a.movie-genre-item') as $genre) {
$item['genres'] = $genre->plaintext . ', ';
}
$item['description'] = $data->find('div.movie-desctiption-more', 0)->plaintext;
$item['imdb_rating'] = $data->find('a.imdb_vote', 0)->plaintext;
$item['imdb_id'] = trim(substr($data->find('a.imdb_vote',0)->href, strrpos($data->find('a.imdb_vote',0)->href, '/') + 1));
}
}
As you see I'm getting content as array. Then inside it I run another foreach loop to get all genre items but it only gets last genre item. What is wrong in my code?
You are just overwriting the last set of data each time. You need to set it to blank and then append it using .=
each time, like...
$item['genres'] = '';
foreach($data->find('a.movie-genre-item') as $genre) {
$item['genres'] .= $genre->plaintext . ', ';
}