Hi I really need some help. Im quite new to the concept of Xpath but i getting my head around it.
However I have come across the following code an am trying to get the body of the article so in the first example this would be
"Court shuts down £1.8m carbon credit investment firms. ... The Insolvency Services
forced them into liquidation over selling carbon credit sales. ..."
and also the date so again in the first example this would be
"By Michelle Abrego | 14 Jul 2014"
I can get to the title by using :
$website_row = $website_xpath->query('//div[@id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mtrResults"]//h3[@class="headline"]/a[@id]');
if($website_row->length > 0){
foreach($website_row as $row){
echo $row->nodeValue . "<br/><br/>";
$newTitle = $row->nodeValue;
$dataStoreForTable['title'][]=$newTitle;
}
}
But i can't seem to be able to get to the body or the date.
<div class="columnOne">
<div id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mtrResults">
<p>
<span id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mlblResultCount">Results 1 - 10 of about 57 for 'Carbon Credit Fraud' sorted by date - </span>
<a id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mlnkChangeSort" href="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ctl00$mainContentPlaceHolder$mlnkChangeSort", "", true, "", "", false, true))">sort by relevance</a>
</p>
<h3 class="headline">
<span id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl00_lblNumber">1</span>.
<a id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl00_hlResult" href="/new-model-adviser/court-shuts-down-1-8m-carbon-credit-investment-firms/a761553">Court shuts down £1.8m carbon credit investment firms </a>
</h3>
<p id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl00_CreditParagraph" class="meta">By Michelle Abrego | 14 Jul 2014</p>
<p>
<span id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl00_lblSnippet">Court shuts down £1.8m <b>carbon credit</b> investment firms. <b>...</b> The Insolvency Services<br> forced them into liquidation over selling <b>carbon credit</b> sales. <b>...</b> </span>
</p>
<h3 class="headline">
<span id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl01_lblNumber">2</span>.
<a id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl01_hlResult" href="/new-model-adviser/courtroom-clashes-the-biggest-financial-battles-of-the-year-so-far/a757660">Courtroom clashes: the biggest financial battles of the year so far</a>
</h3>
<p id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl01_CreditParagraph" class="meta">By Jun Merrett | 18 Jun 2014</p>
<p>
<span id="ctl00_ctl00_mainContentPlaceHolder_mrpAllSearchResults_ctl01_lblSnippet"><b>...</b> than three years in jail after being found guilty of a £1.6 million <b>fraud</b>. <b>...</b> The court<br> had heard that Ames led investors into bogus <b>carbon credit</b> and teak tree <b>...</b> </span>
</p>
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