DOMXPath DOM parser with PHP: Skip a class

Question

I want to skip the first "a" <a href="URL#" title="TITLE">TITLE</a>

And select all others under class posted-in

$models = $xpath->query("//p[@class='posted-in']//a");
    for ($i = 0; $i < $models->length; $i++) {
        $result->add_model($models->item($i)->getAttribute('a'));
    }

HTML:

<p class="posted-in">
            Posted in <a href="URL#" title="TITLE">TITLE</a>
on Mar 16, 2017 featuring <a href="URL#">MODEL1</a>, 
                          <a href="URL#">MODEL2</a>, 
                          <a href="URL#">MODEL2</a></p>

I'm using this code with tag "alt" Goodwork

$models = $xpath->query("//li[@class='models']//img");
    for ($i = 0; $i < $model->length; $i++) {
        $result->add_model($models->item($i)->getAttribute('alt'));
    }

But I'm Confused... How can I select the a text?

Answer 1

The text content of an element node is available in the property DOMElement::$textContent . This value includes any descendant text node.

If you need to ignore the first node in your result you can add a condition.

$html = <<<'HTML'
<p class="posted-in">
            Posted in <a href="URL#1" title="TITLE">TITLE</a>
on Mar 16, 2017 featuring <a href="URL#2">MODEL1</a>, 
                          <a href="URL#3">MODEL2</a>, 
                          <a href="URL#4">MODEL2</a></p>
HTML;

$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->loadHtml($html);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($document);

$expression = '//p[@class="posted-in"]/a[position() > 1]';

foreach ($xpath->evaluate($expression) as $a) {
  var_dump($a->textContent, $a->getAttribute('href'));
}

Output:

string(6) "MODEL1"
string(5) "URL#2"
string(6) "MODEL2"
string(5) "URL#3"
string(6) "MODEL2"
string(5) "URL#4"