How can we get specific links using simple html dom

Question

I have used this script which i found in the official simple html dom site to find hyperlinks in a website

foreach($html->find('a') as $element) 
       echo $element->href . '<br>';

it returned all the links found in the website but i want only specific links in that website. is there a way of doing it in simple html dom. This is the html code for that specific links

<a class="z" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16893609" target="_blank" rel="follow">middle east</a>

where this is the html tag which is different from other hyperlinks

<a class="z"

and also there is any way i can get the link text ("middle east") together with the link.

Answer 1

I understand you'd like all a elements with the class z? You can do that like this:

foreach($html->find('a.z') as $element)

You can get an element's value (which for links will be the link text) with the plaintext property:

$element->plaintext

Please note that this can all be found in the manual.