How to get penultimate element in PHPQuery?

Question

PHP

The question is simple - how to get an element by number from the end in phpquery?

<?php
  $html = <<<EOD
<div style="text-align: center;" class="navigation">
        <span class="pagination">
          <span>« novější</span> | 
          <span>1</span> | 
          <a href="?listType=&amp;sort=&amp;page=1">2</a> | 
          <a href="?listType=&amp;sort=&amp;page=2">3</a> | 
          <a href="?listType=&amp;sort=&amp;page=3">4</a> | 
          <a href="?listType=&amp;sort=&amp;page=1">starší »</a>
        </span>
      </div>
EOD;

  $dom = PHPQuery::newDocument($html);
  var_dump($dom->find('.navigation > .pagination > *')->eq(-2)->text());
  var_dump($dom->find('.navigation > .pagination > *:last-child(2)')->text());

Gives out:

string(0) ""
string(11) "starší »"

And you need 4.

Answer 1

The first thing that came to mind was what can be obtained by counting the total number of elements (this is an option if the method above does not work), that is:

$dom   = PHPQuery::newDocument($html);
$elems = $dom->find('.navigation > .pagination > *');

if( $elems->length ) {
    $penult = $elems->length - ($elems->length > 2 ? 2 : 1);

    var_dump($elems->eq($penult)->text());
}