I am using a software called Visual Web Ripper to select element i need from a webpage. But i do not use Visual Web Ripper to scrape the elements, I just want to get the XPATH from there of the elements I need and then use that in our own engine. But it does not seem to work. See screen shots below.
Getting XPATH from Visual Web Ripper for the elements i want to scrape
The code I am using in PHP
$curl = new curl();
$html = $curl->get_web_page('http://forums.fatakat.com/');
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256"/>'.$html);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($doc);
$elements = $xpath->query("//TABLE[@class='tborder']/TBODY/TR[@class='']/TD[2]/DIV[1]/A[1]/STRONG[1]");
////$elements = $xpath->query("//*[@id='f3']"); //works
if (!is_null($elements)) {
foreach ($elements as $element) {
echo "<br/>[". $element->nodeName. "]";
$nodes = $element->childNodes;
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
echo $node->nodeValue. "\n";
}
}
}
Thanking you