How to check if a SimpleHTMLDom element does not exist

Question

SimpleHtmldom can be used to extract the contents of the first element with class description.

$html = str_get_html($html);
$html->find(\'.d         


        

Answer 1

$avalable = ($element->find('span.sold-out-text', 0)) ? 1 : 0;

It works for me.

Answer 2

for me none of above solution worked and finally i checked like this

$html = str_get_html($html);

if($html){
    //html found
}else{
    //html not found
}

Answer 3

According to the SimpleHtmlDOM Api str_get_html($html) expects a string as input. First check with a html validator if your code is well formatted.

$htmlObj = str_get_html($html);
if (!is_object($htmlObj)) return; // catch errors 

// or wrap further code in 
if (is_object($htmlObj)) { /* doWork */ }

Answer 4

if(($html->find('.description', 0))) {
    echo 'set';
}else{
    echo 'not set';
}

http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.if.php