Is there a PHP library that facilitates manipulating html elements in a similar fashion to jquery?

PHP string manipulation functions are very counterintuitive and clunky, at least for me, and ev开发者_StackOverflow社区erytime I need to manipulate some html code before outputting it it takes too much time.

I was wondering if there was any PHP library that helps with this, preferably in a similar way to jQuery: retrieving and manipulating element attributes, selecting all the attributes with a given class, etc.

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you can use phpquery or querypath. Here is a comprehensive tutorial about querypath.

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There is a Dom Parser in PHP :

http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php

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Sounds like you should be manipulating the HTML as a DOMdocument and using XPath (quite similar to jQuery selectors) to select the nodes.

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Next to what silent answered, there is also FluentDOM which is not exactly jQuery mimicking, but provides fluent interfaces based on DomDocument^Docs.