PHP DOM parsing HTML table

Question

I am trying to parse a HTML table in a page.

However, it is not the only TABLE in the page, and I am only interested in parsing the 2nd <table> instnace in the HTML page.

How do I specify to parse only the 2nd TABLE instance in the HTML page?

//the table by its tag name  
$tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table');

Dr.Molle · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-13 23:51:38Z

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Use DOMNodelist->item() (item() expects as argument the index, it's zero-based so 1 will return the 2nd table )

 $table = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table')->item(1);

answered Nov 13, 2011 at 23:51

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