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.

Changelog

• Added changelog
• Generated doc
• Code revision - again it is faster (f.e. " to ')