How to extract img src and alt from html using PHP?
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15 May, 2019
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Extraction of image attributes like 'src', 'alt', 'height', 'width' etc from a HTML page using PHP. This task can be done using the following steps.
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Output:
Example 2: This example displays the attribute of an image object.
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Output:
- Loading HTML content in a variable(DOM variable).
- Selecting each image in that document.
- Selecting attribute and save it's content to a variable.
- Output as HTML img object or as plain values as required.
<?php
// error_reporting(0);
function crawl_page($url) {
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// Loading HTML content in $dom
@$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
// Selecting all image i.e. img tag object
$anchors = $dom -> getElementsByTagName('img');
// Extracting attribute from each object
foreach ($anchors as $element) {
// Extracting value of src attribute of
// the current image object
$src = $element -> getAttribute('src');
// Extracting value of alt attribute of
// the current image object
$alt = $element -> getAttribute('alt');
// Extracting value of height attribute
// of the current image object
$height = $element -> getAttribute('height');
// Extracting value of width attribute of
// the current image object
$width = $element -> getAttribute('width');
// Given Output as image with extracted attribute,
// you can print value of those attributes also
echo '<img src="'.$src.'" alt="'.$alt.'" height="'
. $height.'" width="'.$width.'"/>';
}
}
crawl_page("https://www.google.com/search?q=geeksforgeeks&tbm=isch");
?>
<?php
// error_reporting(0);
function crawl_page($url) {
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// Loading HTML content in $dom
@$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
// Selecting all image i.e. img tag object
$anchors = $dom -> getElementsByTagName('img');
// Extracting attribute from each object
foreach ($anchors as $element) {
// Extracting value of src attribute of
// the current image object
$src = $element -> getAttribute('src');
// Extracting value of alt attribute of
// the current image object
$alt = $element -> getAttribute('alt');
// Extracting value of height attribute
// of the current image object
$height = $element -> getAttribute('height');
// Extracting value of width attribute of
// the current image object
$width = $element -> getAttribute('width');
// Display Output as value of those attributes
echo 'src='.$src.'<br> alt='.$alt.'<br> height='
. $height.'<br> width='.$width.'<hr>';
}
}
crawl_page("https://www.google.com/search?q=flowers&tbm=isch");
?>
