jQuery-like interface for PHP?

Question

I was curious as to whether or not there exists a jQuery-style interface/library for PHP for handling HTML/XML files -- specifically using jQuery style selectors.

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Answer 1

simplexml perhaps? Its syntax is different from jquery, but it does make traversing XML really easy.

It will however not work for HTML that is not valid XML.

Answer 2

http://fluentdom.org/ is another alternative.

Answer 3

my alternative is https://github.com/gymadarasz/xparser

fast and easy to use, an example:

$x('#nav a', function($elem) {
  $elem->href = '//myurl/' . $elem->href;
});

Answer 4

HtmlPageDom extends Symfony's DOM Crawler and adds jQuery-like DOM manipulation functions.

Answer 5

Doing some more hunting, I think I might've found precisely what I was looking for:

phpQuery - jQuery port to PHP

Thanks everyone for your answers, I will definitely keep them in mind for other uses.

Answer 6

The best one I found is https://github.com/scotteh/php-dom-wrapper

It works very similarly as jQuery, and it is fast.

I tried many libraries from other answers, but I didn't manage to port the manipulations I was doing in jQuery easily. With this one it was a breeze. I guess it will become more popular soon...