jQuery-like interface for PHP?

Question

I was curious as to whether or not there exists a jQuery-style interface/library for PHP for handling HTML/XML files -- specifically using jQuery style selectors.

I'd like to do things like this (all hypothetical):

foreach (j("div > p > a") as anchor) {
   // ...
}


print j("#some_id")->html();


print j("a")->eq(0)->attr("name");

These are just a few examples.

I did as much Googling as I could but couldn't find what I was looking for. Does anyone know if something along these lines exist, or is this something I'm going to have to make from scratch myself using domxml?

Solution 1

Doing some more hunting, I think I might've found precisely what I was looking for:

phpQuery - jQuery port to PHP

Thanks everyone for your answers, I will definitely keep them in mind for other uses.

Solution 2

PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser uses jQuery-style selectors. Examples from the documentation:

Modifying HTML elements:

// Create DOM from string
$html = str_get_html('<div id="hello">Hello</div><div id="world">World</div>');

$html->find('div', 1)->class = 'bar';

$html->find('div[id=hello]', 0)->innertext = 'foo';

echo $html; // Output: <div id="hello">foo</div><div id="world" class="bar">World</div>

Scraping Slashdot:

// Create DOM from URL
$html = file_get_html('http://slashdot.org/');

// Find all article blocks
foreach($html->find('div.article') as $article) {
    $item['title']     = $article->find('div.title', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['intro']    = $article->find('div.intro', 0)->plaintext;
    $item['details'] = $article->find('div.details', 0)->plaintext;
    $articles[] = $item;
}

print_r($articles);

Solution 3

The question is old but what you need is Query Path.

Solution 4

Trust me you are looking for xPath. I am showing you an example

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument;
libxml_use_internal_errors(TRUE);
$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://somewhereinblog.net');

libxml_clear_errors();

$xPath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$links = $xPath->query('//h1//a'); //This is xPath. Really nice and better than anything
foreach($links as $link) {
    printf("<p><a href='%s'>%s</a></p>\n", $link->getAttribute('href'), $link->nodeValue);
}
?>

Solution 5

The best one I found is https://github.com/scotteh/php-dom-wrapper

It works very similarly as jQuery, and it is fast.

I tried many libraries from other answers, but I didn't manage to port the manipulations I was doing in jQuery easily. With this one it was a breeze. I guess it will become more popular soon...

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