Extracting data from HTML

Anon

I was wondering if anyone ne of a way to parse an external document (HTML) and extract relevant data from it to be written to variables in my php script.

Thanks

cvincent

What are you looking for? There are a ton of ways to parse html.

-Chris

Anon

not the actual parsing technique, just a way to open the external files and read the contents.

cvincent

I mean, are you looking to grab all things contained within <A HREF=""> tags? Are you looking for all sentences that contain the word "foo"? If you want to load the HTML into an array, then use the file() function. Then you can do what you want with it, like preg_grep() it or preg_replace. Note that $data = file("http://server/page.html") will load all data in the page.html into the array $data, and each element is broken by newline characters. It is the same as doing $data = include("http://server/page.html); $data = explode("\n", $data).

-Chris

Anon

how do you send the data from an HTML form to an XML dataset. i can retrieve XML dataset, but want to know how it can be build.
i have to send the data from an HTML form.

Anon

Hi Chris,

Hope you can help me !

Here is what I need to do:

open/read a html file from a remote server and parse some data. Here is the string I need to find/read:

  <td>
    <p align="center">Order
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">89
    </p>
  </td>

and then I need to extract whatever numerical characters are present after the second occurance of <p align="center">
And I need to do this twice within the same file, once for "Order" and then for "TroubleTicket".

  <td>
    <p align="center">Order
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">89
    </p>
  </td>

</center>
<td>
<p align="center">55%
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<center>

<tr>
  <td>
    <p align="center">12/5/2000
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">TroubleTicket
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">17
    </p>
  </td>

Realy appreciate any help,
Pedro