For my project I'm reading an external website which has used the same ID twice. I can't change that.
I need the content from the second appearance of that ID but my code just results the first one and does not see the second one.
Also a count to $data results 1 but not 2.
I'm desperate. Does anyone have an idea how to access the second ID 'hours'?
<?PHP
$url = 'myurl';
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
$data = $dom->getElementById("hours");
echo $data->nodeValue."\n";
echo count($data);
?>
As @rickdenhaan points out, getElementById always returns a single element which is the first element that has that specific value of id. However you can use DOMXPath to find all nodes which have a given id value and then pick out the one you want (in this code it will find the second one):
$url = 'myurl';
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$count = 0;
foreach ($xpath->query("//*[@id='hours']") as $node) {
if ($count == 1) echo $node->nodeValue;
$count++;
}
As @NigelRen points out in the comments, you can simplify this further by directly selecting the second input in the XPath i.e.
$node = $xpath->query("(//*[@id='hours'])[2]")[0];
echo $node->nodeValue;