Comparison: native PHP DOM Extension instead of simple html parser

[bernard_hinault]

good day dear community,

well i want to parse the site here:

http://buergerstiftungen.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-A7DCD0D1-702CE0FA/buergerstiftungen/hs.xsl/db.htm

I suggest to use the native PHP "DOM" Extension instead of "simple html parser", it will be much faster and easier 😉

What do you think about this one here...:

$doc = new DOMDocument
@$doc->loadHTMLFile('...URL....'); // Using the @ operator to hide parse errors
$contents = $doc->getElementById('content')->nodeValue; // Text contents of #content

Well what do you think - is this a good decision!? i look forward to hear from you!

greetings

[Weedpacket]

If by "simple html parser" you mean the one hosted on SourceForge (which is the one I found just now by searching), I'm not seeing why it wasn't just built on top of the native DOM extension in the first place.