PHP DOMDocument : how to select all links under a specific tag

Question

I\'m just getting started with using php DOMDocument and am having a little trouble. How would I select all link nodes under a specific node lets say

in jquery i could

Answer 1

As far as I know, jQuery rewrites the selector queries to XPath. Any node jQuery can select, XPath also can.

h5 > a means select any a node for which the direct parent node is h5. This can easily be translated to a XPath query: //h5/a.

So, using DOMDocument:

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html);

$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$nodes = $xpath->query('//h5/a');

foreach ($nodes as $node) {
   // do stuff
}