I have a php code that could extract the product categories in this website: http://www.tradeindia.com/. So far I had managed to extract only the categories. How do I make it so that it will also extract the product numbers beside it since its not in any class name?
My code:
<?php
//header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$grep = new DoMDocument();
@$grep->loadHTMLFile("http://www.tradeindia.com/");
$finder = new DomXPath($grep);
$class = "cate_menu";
$nodes = $finder->query("//*[contains(@class, '$class')]");
$total_L = 0;
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
$span = $node->childNodes;
echo '<br>' . $span->item(0)->nodeValue . ' : ';
}
?>
Source code from website:
<td align="left" style="padding-left:8px;color:blue"><a href=/Seller/Agriculture/ class="cate_menu" >Agriculture</a>(100892)</td>
<td align="left" style="padding-left:8px;color:blue"><a href=/Seller/Apparel-Fashion/ class="cate_menu" >Apparel & Fashion</a>(237902)</td>
<td align="left" style="padding-left:8px;color:blue"><a href=/Seller/Automobile/ class="cate_menu" >Automobile</a>(78614)</td>
I need the numbers between brackets.
I'm not an xpath guru, but what I would do is to target first that particular table using that needle categories, then from there get those rows based on that and start looping on found rows.
Rough example:
$grep = new DOMDocument();
@$grep->loadHTMLFile("http://www.tradeindia.com/");
$finder = new DOMXpath($grep);
$products = array();
$nodes = $finder->query("
//td[@class='showroom1'][contains(text(), 'CATEGORIES')]
/parent::tr/parent::table/parent::td/parent::tr
/following-sibling::tr
/td[1]/table/tr/td/table/tr
");
if($nodes->length > 0) {
foreach($nodes as $tr) {
if($finder->evaluate('count(./td/a)', $tr) > 0) {
foreach($finder->query('./td/a[@class="cate_menu"]', $tr) as $row) {
$text = $row->nodeValue;
$number = $finder->query('./following-sibling::text()', $row)->item(0)->nodeValue;
$products[] = "$text $number";
}
}
}
}
echo '<pre>';
print_r($products);
Sample Output
Since the number is between two brackets, this should be easy. You can use a function like this;
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end) {
$string = " ".$string;
$ini = strpos($string,$start);
if ($ini == 0) return "";
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}
$product = get_string_between($htmlline, "(", ")");
You will need to get each line of the table inserted separately though. You could loop through an array of strings containing each line; foreach($htmllines as $htmlline)
or similar.
Hope this helps.