How to find tag name using phpquery?

Question

I am using phpquery to extract some data from a webpage. I need to identify the menu of the page. My implementation is to find each element that has sibilings > 0 and last-child is an "a". My code is:

foreach($this->doc['*'] as $tagObj){
$tag = pq($tagObj);
if(count($tag->siblings()) > 0){
    if($tag->find(":last-child")->tagName  === "a")
        echo trim(strip_tags($tag->html())) . "<br/>";
    }
}

However, I am not getting any output because of

$tag->find(":last-child")->tagName

which isn't returning anything. What would be the reason for this?

Answer 1

I don't know this library but perhaps something like this

$siblings = $tag->siblings();
if (($siblingCount = count($siblings)) && $siblings[$siblingCount - 1]->tagName === 'a') {
    echo ...
}

Answer 2

You can do it in reverse check for a:last-child :

For example :

foreach($this->doc['*'] as $tagObj){
$tag = pq($tagObj);
if(count($tag->siblings()) > 0){
    if($tag->find("a:last-child"))
        echo trim(strip_tags($tag->html())) . "<br/>";
    }
}

This will check for the a tag of last-child and you can get its content easily. May this help you.