jQuery-like interface for PHP?

Question

I was curious as to whether or not there exists a jQuery-style interface/library for PHP for handling HTML/XML files -- specifically using jQuery style selectors.

I'd like to do things like this (all hypothetical):

 foreach (j("div > p > a") as anchor) {    // ... }   print j("#some_id")->html();   print j("a")->eq(0)->attr("name"); 

These are just a few examples.

I did as much Googling as I could but couldn't find what I was looking for. Does anyone know if something along these lines exist, or is this something I'm going to have to make from scratch myself using domxml?

Answer 1

PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser uses jQuery-style selectors. Examples from the documentation:

Modifying HTML elements:

// Create DOM from string $html = str_get_html('<div id="hello">Hello</div><div id="world">World</div>');  $html->find('div', 1)->class = 'bar';  $html->find('div[id=hello]', 0)->innertext = 'foo';  echo $html; // Output: <div id="hello">foo</div><div id="world" class="bar">World</div> 

Scraping Slashdot:

// Create DOM from URL $html = file_get_html('http://slashdot.org/');  // Find all article blocks foreach($html->find('div.article') as $article) {     $item['title']     = $article->find('div.title', 0)->plaintext;     $item['intro']    = $article->find('div.intro', 0)->plaintext;     $item['details'] = $article->find('div.details', 0)->plaintext;     $articles[] = $item; }  print_r($articles); 

Answer 2

Doing some more hunting, I think I might've found precisely what I was looking for:

phpQuery - jQuery port to PHP

Thanks everyone for your answers, I will definitely keep them in mind for other uses.