PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser [fatal error Call to a member function find() on a non-object ]

Question

Anyone knows why I have this error? What am I doing wrong?

<?
include('simple_html_dom.php');

$html = ("http://99designs.pt/logo-design/contests?show=finished");
foreach($html->find('span[class=active.sl_notranslate]') as $aholder) {

echo $aholder . '<br>';
}
?>

Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on a non-object in ../simplehtml.php on line 5

In this instance $html is a string so it won't have any methods attached to it. — Cjmarkham
– Cjmarkham, Commented Nov 2, 2014 at 23:59
thanks, It was missing this: $html = file_get_html($url); Do you know how I echo the "span" content? — Filipa Pereira
– Filipa Pereira, Commented Nov 3, 2014 at 0:04

Cjmarkham · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-03 00:05:59Z

1

You forgot to add the function name file_get_html, the code should be like this:

<?php
  include 'simple_html_dom.php';

  $html = file_get_html("http://99designs.pt/logo-design/contests?show=finished");
  foreach($html->find('span[class=active.sl_notranslate]') as $aholder) {

    echo $aholder . '<br>';
  }

?>

edited Nov 3, 2014 at 0:05

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answered Nov 3, 2014 at 0:00

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4 Comments

Alex Doe Over a year ago

To echo the span content you should put this code inside the foreach echo $aholder->innertext . '<br>'; Check the documentation here: simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net, it is very well exaplined.

Filipa Pereira Over a year ago

I add that, but is returning nothing... The content of the span is from the data base of the website. Is that the problem? On console I have this error: "GET js.bizographics.com/insight.min.js net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT "

Alex Doe Over a year ago

no, the console doesn`t have anything with this. i checked the source of the url which you provided but there is no span with .sl_notranslate class.

Filipa Pereira Over a year ago

you are right. It's not "active.sl_notranslate". It's "active sl_notranslate". I got it, thanks :)

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