Extracting Site data through Web Crawler outputs error due to mis-match of Array Index

Question

I been trying to extract site table text along with its link from the given table to (which is in site1.com) to my php page using a web crawler.

But unfortunately,

Answer 1

Chopping at html with string functions or regex is not a reliable method. DomDocument and Xpath do a nice job.

Code: (Demo)

$dom=new DOMDocument; 
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
foreach ($xpath->evaluate("//td[@class = 'FootNotes2']/a") as $node) {  // target a tags that have  as parent
    $result[]=['href' => $node->getAttribute('href'), 'text' => $node->nodeValue];  // extract/store the href and text values
    if (sizeof($result) == 10) { break; }  // set a limit of 10 rows of data
}
if (isset($result)) {
    echo "
\n";
    foreach ($result as $data) {
        echo "\t
{$data['text']}
\n";
    }
    echo "
";
}

Sample Input:

$html = <<

     
    Subject
     
    Last Update
     
    Replies
     
    Views


     
    Serious dedicated study partner for U World - step12013
     
    02/11/17 01:50
     
    10
     
    318


     
    some text - step12013
     
    02/11/17 01:50
     
    10
     
    318



HTML;

Output:

    
Serious dedicated study partner for U World
    
some text