Parsing text from HTML file. dumping into DB

[IceOnFire]

I am working on a script to extract statistics (which is updated daily) from a website, and insert them into a MySQL database. I want to take this website:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/stats/allplayers0304.htm
and strip off all the HTML tags and etc, make it look like
http://www.enlhoops.com/ratings/parsed.txt
and then insert each players stat line into the database.

I have begun writing the script, getting the file, striping html tags off, but that doesn't seem to work too well. If anyone can help me get started, suggest a function or anything else, that would be helpful. Thanks.

IceOnFire

[yelvington]

If you are thinking of publishing the result, don't.

http://www.usatoday.com/marketing/legal.htm

[IceOnFire]

I don't plan to publish the result, it will be used for a project I am working on. Thanks for the heads up anyway.