eyupcanakman/simple-html-dom

A modern HTML DOM parser for PHP using DOMDocument and Symfony CssSelector.

v5.1.1 2026-02-28 20:29 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.1.0
• ext-dom: *
• ext-libxml: *
• ext-simplexml: *
• symfony/css-selector: ~3.0 || ~4.0 || ~5.0 || ~6.0 || ~7.0 || ~8.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~6.0 || ~7.0 || ~9.0 || ~10.0 || ~11.0

MIT

• Eyüp Can Akman
• Lars Moelleken
• dimabdc

• dom
• php dom
• HTML Parser

README

A HTML DOM parser written in PHP - let you manipulate HTML in a very easy way!

A modern fork of PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. Instead of string manipulation, it uses DOMDocument and modern PHP classes like Symfony CssSelector.

What's different in this fork

• PHP 8.4 support (nullable parameter deprecations fixed)
• Symfony 8.0 support
• Leading combinator selectors (> span, + div, ~ p) now work in find()
• @property annotations on abstract classes for better static analysis (Psalm, PHPStan)
• Minimum PHP version corrected to 7.1.0 (matches actual nullable type usage)
• findOneOrNull() for PHP 8.0+ nullsafe operator support (?->)
• remove() method (jQuery-style alias for delete())
• text() no longer includes <style> and <script> content
• Fixed crash when calling delete() on detached/root nodes
• HTML output no longer adds extra linebreaks not in the original
• Compound text / comment selectors: find('div text'), find('p > text'), find('div comment')
• SVG data URLs inside <style> tags no longer break parsing (unquoted url() fix)

Features

• PHP 7.1+ & 8.x support
• Composer & PSR-4
• UTF-8 support
• Invalid HTML support (partly)
• Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery
• Extract contents from HTML in a single line

Install

composer require eyupcanakman/simple-html-dom

Quick Start

use eyupcanakman\SimpleHtmlDom\HtmlDomParser;

$dom = HtmlDomParser::str_get_html($str);
// or
$dom = HtmlDomParser::file_get_html($file);

$element = $dom->findOne('#css-selector');
$elements = $dom->findMulti('.css-selector');
$elementOrFalse = $dom->findOneOrFalse('#css-selector');
$elementOrNull = $dom->findOneOrNull('#css-selector');
$elementsOrFalse = $dom->findMultiOrFalse('.css-selector');

// PHP 8.0+ nullsafe operator
$text = $dom->findOneOrNull('.maybe-missing')?->text();

// Find text nodes inside an element
$textNodes = $dom->find('div text');        // all descendant text nodes
$directText = $dom->find('p > text');       // direct child text nodes only
$comments = $dom->find('div comment');      // comment nodes inside div

Examples

github.com/eyupcanakman/simple_html_dom/tree/master/example

API

github.com/eyupcanakman/simple_html_dom/tree/master/README_API.md

License

MIT - see LICENSE

Credits

Based on PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.