Get value of html-element with PHP

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Hi everyone.

I would like to retrieve the value of an html-element on one of my websites.

The path to that element is as follows: div#container > ul.specials > li.first > p.

I have tried using DOMdocument model (in particular the functions loadHTML & getElementById) but that didn't work out because of server-restrictions.

So now I'm using cURL which bypasses the server-problems.

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'www.somewebsite.com');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$page = $file_contents;
//echo $page;
?>

Thus far I succeeded into loading html-data of a page (in this case: somewebsite.com) into a variable called $page.

From now on, I need to retrieve the value of the html-element which is located on that page under the path: div#container > ul.specials > li.first > p.

The problem is that I haven't got any clue on how to achieve this since my PHP-skills are rather poor. I believe there is no php-function similiar to getElementById?

Is there anyone who can help me out with this? :icon_neutral: