Personally, I'm a fan of SimpleHTMLDOM,
http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/, which has a great interface, but
uses string parsing instead of DOM.
I haven't had much experience with these others:
phpQuery: http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/
Zend_Dom: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.dom.html
QueryPath: http://querypath.org/
FluentDOM: http://www.fluentdom.org/
That said, if you're trying to replace simple javascript functionality
for anything besides parsing HTML, I might argue that you might not be
doing enough javascript. I don't know your client(s) / empoyer(s) /
project(s), but I've found in the past 2+ years that I could do so much
more in javascript and keep php in the back for the heavier lifting and
data access. The recent flourishing of interesting javascript-heavy
sites has essentially guaranteed javascript is enabled on most
browsers. I recently released a javascript-heavy site that is accessed
by tens of thousands of non-technical people every day and there
haven't been any complaints (besides the occasional javascript bug that
buzzed past my tests).
Of course, that always depends on your market. Accessibility is a
serious js-heavy issue. And some sites need to be js-light for
backwards compatibility (banks and other such institutions come to
mind). But if those specific cases aren't in your way, I might
recommend getting cozier with JS instead of trying to replace it with
PHP. It's not the toy language of the early 00's, but rather an
advanced and fast front-end language that has finally grown into its
potential - and arguably the most popular language in the world.
Mark
On 08/05/2011 06:39 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
I was wondering what the current favorites are for PHP html DOM
manipulation are.
I ran across one library which basically took all the JQuery DOM
functions and created PHP equivalents for them - so you can do things
like find all the elements of a certain tag class or type and replace
their html with something else.
One thing I'd like to see this for is to re-write all those cool
lightbox style javascript codes into PHP code[so instead of the user
waiting for all the HTML to download, then waiting for a javascript
event to trigger to update the links from their old links to popup
links if they have the appropriate class - the server can pre-process
the file and do those substitutions once and then cache the data.]
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