README

The goal of this project is to be a DOM-based drop-in replacement for PHP's simple html dom library.

How To Use - The same way as simple. If you use file/str_get_html then you don't need to change anything. If you are instantiating with new simple_html_dom() then you will need to change that to new AdvancedHtmlDom()

What's Different - Mostly just formatting (spaces) in the html. This is added by DOM and there's no way around it. Some non-standard selectors have been dropped but many more standard ones have been added. For example: img[src!=foo] was removed because it's not a valid selector. Added are things like a + b and a ~ b or even a.foo:not(.bar)

What's Better

• 10x-20x Performance increase
• Reduced memory requirement
• Support for many more css selectors

Features

• Supports full set of css pseudo selectors plus many jquery extras: :not, :has, :contains, :gt, :lt, :eq
• Use with css or xpath: $doc->find('h3 a'), $doc->find('//h3//a')
• Jquery-style functions replace, wrap, unwrap, before after
• Nodeset math: $doc->find('a')->minus($doc->find('.skip_me'))
• Lots more features that haven't been documented yet.

Installation

The preferred way to install extension is via composer. Check the composer.json for this extension's requirements and dependencies.

To install, either run

$ php composer.phar require aayaresko/yii2-advanced-html-dom "*"

or add

"aayaresko/yii2-advanced-html-dom": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json.