Convert a (nested)HTML unordered list of links to PHP array of links
- by Klark
Hi,
I have a regular, nested HTML unordered list of links, and I'd like to scrape it with PHP and convert it to an array.
The original list looks something like this:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://someurl.com">First item</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://someotherurl.com/">Child of First Item</a></li>
<li><a href="http://someotherurl.com/">Second Child of First Item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://bogusurl.com">Second item</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bogusurl.com">Third item</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bogusurl.com">Fourth item</a></li>
</ul>
Any of the items can have children.
(The actual screen scraping is not a problem, I can do that.)
I'd like to turn this into a PHP array, of just the links, while keeping the hierarchical nature of the list. Any ideas?
I've looked at using htmlsimpledom and phpQuery, which both use jQuery like syntax. But, I can't seem to get the syntax right.
Thanks.
