Parsing html code with html error problem

Question

I want to parse the link: http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html using php.

But when i wrote the code,

$url = "http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html";
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$html = $dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false; 
$tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table');
$tr = $tables->item(2)->getElementsByTagName('tr');
$rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('td');

foreach($rows as $row)
{
    $movie = $row->getElementsByTagName('b');
    echo $movie;}

I got bunch of errors:

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: font and td in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 54 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: font and b in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 81 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: font and b in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 106 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: htmlParseEntityRef: no name in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 115 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: td and b in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 126 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: td and font in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 126 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: font and b in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 128 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: htmlParseEntityRef: no name in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 1575 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Tag blink invalid in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 2190 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: td and b in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 2200 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: td and font in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 2200 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: body and center in http://dizli.com/dizli/db.html, line: 2225 in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 93

Catchable fatal error: Object of class DOMNodeList could not be converted to string in C:\development\app_server\C7\Lib\Tools\News.php on line 102

Can someone help me parse this link, so that I can save the Movie's names and Director's name.

Thanks in advance. Zeeshan

Somewhat related - stackoverflow.com/questions/1148928/…

Phil
– Phil

2011-05-03 23:23:46 +00:00
Commented May 3, 2011 at 23:23 — Phil
– Phil, Commented May 3, 2011 at 23:23

Andrew Barber · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-01 22:10:16Z

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To hide the errors and still work with that code, just ad @ before $dom, like:

$html = @$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);

edited Nov 1, 2012 at 22:10

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answered Nov 1, 2012 at 21:52

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Iharob Al Asimi Over a year ago

Why does this work? What is the @ operator? could you explain please?

Ry- · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-03 23:16:16Z

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The page is written in very old HTML code (you can tell by the FONT tags, capitalization, etc.) and so <br> tags and probably paragraphs and other things as well, are not closed. I recommend using regular expressions to find them in this case.

answered May 3, 2011 at 23:16

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jeroen · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-03 23:25:06Z

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Your main problem is the last line:

echo $movie;

$movie is an instance of DOMNodeList so you can´t just echo it, you need to get it´s elements like for example $movie->item(0)

You can also just do a var_dump of $movie and see what that gets you.

The warnings you can possibly ignore, that depends on the output you get.

answered May 3, 2011 at 23:25

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