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A fast, forgiving HTML parser for PHP 8.4+ that lets you find and manipulate HTML elements using CSS-like selectors — no ext-dom required.

✨ Features

CSS-like selectors — find elements by tag, #id, .class, [attribute], and more
Two APIs, one engine — use procedural functions (str_get_html, file_get_html) or the namespaced OOP interface (Parser, Node)
Forgiving parser — handles messy, real-world HTML without choking
Read and modify — change attributes, inner/outer HTML, and serialize back to string or file
Tree traversal — navigate parents, children, and siblings
Callbacks — hook into serialization with per-node callback functions
Charset conversion — automatic detection and conversion via ext-mbstring
Configurable — adjust max file size, encoding, and parser behavior at runtime
Fully backward compatible — legacy simple_html_dom code works without changes

📋 Requirements

PHP 8.4+
ext-mbstring

🚀 Quick Start

Install via Composer:

composer require shark/simple_html_dom

Note: If the package is not available on Packagist, add the repository to your composer.json:
"repositories": [{ "type": "vcs", "url": "https://github.com/Mistralys/simple_html_dom.git" }]

Parse HTML and find elements:

use SimpleHtmlDom\Parser;

$html = new Parser('<ul><li class="active">One</li><li>Two</li></ul>');

// Find by CSS selector
$active = $html->find('li.active', 0);
echo $active->plaintext; // "One"

// Modify and output
$active->class = 'done';
echo $html->save(); // <ul><li class="done">One</li><li>Two</li></ul>

Or use the procedural API:

$html = str_get_html('<p>Hello <b>World</b></p>');
echo $html->find('b', 0)->plaintext; // "World"

📖 Learn More

Resource	Description
Manual	Full documentation — 14 guides covering selectors, DOM traversal, modification, configuration, and more
Examples	16 runnable PHP scripts organized by topic
Changelog	Version history and recent changes

Development

composer install       # Install dev dependencies
composer test          # Run the full test suite (PHPUnit 12.x)
composer analyze       # Run static analysis (PHPStan Level 6)

📜 License

MIT

🔗 Origin

Fork of samacs/simple_html_dom, originally by S.C. Chen (SourceForge).

mistralys / simple_html_dom

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