paquettg/php-html-parser
Php Html Parser
PHP HTML Parser is a server-side programming library and DOM parser designed to ingest markup documents and structure them into a navigable parent-child object tree. The library provides a stream-based character lexer and a configurable rule engine that manages parser strictness, whitespace preservation, tag closing behavior, and character encoding detection during document ingestion.
Content loading is handled through a pluggable retrieval layer that accepts local file paths, raw strings, and remote network URLs. Once loaded, documents can be queried using a chainable CSS selector engine that matches selector expressions to filter and return specific node collections.
The library includes a mutable element node model with fluent modification application programming interfaces that allow developers to alter text content, update attributes, and change the structural hierarchy dynamically.
Features
- HTML and CSS Tools - Finds, filters, and manipulates HTML tags using familiar query syntax as a parsing and crawling library.
- HTML Parsing - Extracts and queries elements from HTML documents using CSS selectors inside PHP applications.
- CSS Selector Engines - Queries markup trees and filters collections using chainable CSS-style selector expressions.
- DOM Tree Construction - Structures parsed markup into a navigable parent-child document object model hierarchy.
- Element Attribute Updates - Exposes fluent modification APIs allowing developers to alter element attributes, text, and structure dynamically.
- HTML Parsers - Loads documents from strings, files, or URLs and queries elements using CSS selectors as a PHP parser library.
- Server Side DOM Manipulation - Modifies document structure, updates node attributes, and alters text content dynamically in server-side code.
- HTML Document Transformation - Updates node attributes, removes elements from the tree, alters text content, and manages tag properties dynamically.
- Lexers - Reads raw input strings character by character through an internal state machine to build tokens.
- Content Abstraction Layers - Abstracts document acquisition to handle local file paths, raw strings, and remote network URLs transparently.
- HTML DOM Manipulators - Modifies document structure, updates attributes, and alters text content dynamically in PHP scripts.
- Document Source Loaders - Ingests markup content directly from raw strings, local file paths, or remote web addresses via HTTP requests.
