QueryPath: Find your way.

New development is happening on the 3.x branch.

Authors: Matt Butcher (lead), Emily Brand, and many others

This package is licensed under an MIT license (COPYING-MIT.txt).

At A Glance

QueryPath is a jQuery-like library for working with XML and HTML documents in PHP.

Say we have a document like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<table>
  <tr id="row1">
    <td>one</td><td>two</td><td>three</td>
  </tr>
  <tr id="row2">
    <td>four</td><td>five</td><td>six</td>
  </tr>
</table>

And say that the above is stored in the variable $xml. Now we can use QueryPath like this:

<?php
// Get all of the <td> elements in the document and add the
// attribute `foo='bar'`:
qp($xml, 'td')->attr('foo', 'bar');

// Or print the contents of the third TD in the second row:
print qp($xml, '#row2>td:nth(3)')->text();

// Or append another row to the XML and then write the 
// result to standard output:
qp($xml, 'tr:last')->after('<tr><td/><td/><td/></tr>')->writeXML();

?>

(This example is in examples/at-a-glance.php.)

With over 60 functions and robust support for chaining, you can accomplish sophisticated XML and HTML processing using QueryPath.

QueryPath Installers

The following packages of QueryPath are available:

A PEAR package (pear install querypath/QueryPath): Installs the library and documentation.
A download from the GitHub Tags page.
Via Composer

Composer

To add QueryPath as a library in your project, add this to the 'require' section of your composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "querypath/QueryPath": ">=2.0.0"
  }
}

The run php composer.phar install in that directory.

Pear

To install QueryPath as a server-wide library, you may wish to use PEAR or Pyrus. See pear.querypath.org for more information, or simply run these commands:

$ pear channel-discover pear.querypath.org
$ pear install querypath/QueryPath

Manual

You can either download a stable release from the GitHub Tags page or you can use git to clone this repository and work from the code. master typically has the latest stable, while 3.x is where active development is happening.

Including QueryPath

As of QueryPath 3.x, QueryPath uses the Composer autoloader if you installed with composer:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
?>

If you installed QueryPath as a PEAR package, use it like this:

<?php
require 'QueryPath/qp.php';
?>

From the download or git clone:

<?php
require 'QueryPath/src/QueryPath/qp.php';
?>

With the Phar archive, you can include QueryPath like this:

<?php
require 'QueryPath.phar';
?>

From there, the main functions you will want to use are qp() (alias of QueryPath::with()) and htmlqp() (alias of QueryPath::withHTML()). Start with the API docs.