Question

This is the first time i am using PHP DOMDocument and i don't know its methods.

I grab the html that has the following format

<div class=row abc>...</div>
<div class=row xyz>...</div>
<div class=row qrs>...</div>
...
...
<div class="row>This is what i want to grab</div>
<div class="row show-more-result">Show More</div>

What i am trying to achieve is that first i select the div with class show-more-results and then target the one level upper div thats where my data is present.

I have started exploring the PHP DOMDocument class but there is not any getElementByClass method i found

public function scrapping()
{
    // Create a DOMDocument Object to fetch the search results
    $dom = new \DOMDocument;
    @$dom->loadHTML($this->_response);
    $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

    $xpath = new \DomXpath($dom);
    $show_more_div = $xpath->query('//*[@class="show-more-result"]')->item(0);
    $stuff = $show_more_div->textContent;

    echo($stuff);

}

I tried to target the show more div but it says Trying to get property of non-object as if the $xpath-query() returns nothing.

Please help me in targeting the desired div.

Updated

var_dump($xpath->query('//*[@class="show-more-result"]')->item(0));
// NULL

Answer 1

You're doing a straight string equality:

$show_more_div = $xpath->query('//*[@class="show-more-result"]')->item(0);
                                       ^^^^^^^

But your target div's class is actually row show-more-result. You need to do a substring match instead:

//*[contains(@class, 'show-more-result')]

Get one div above the div of certain class PHP DOMDocument

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