parse html using php

[saathujaya]

I want to chunk a html page and parse that page using php.ie that html page contain many data.I want to retrive that data using php and want to save in a database.I want the retrieval part.Please help me to do that task.

[dalecosp]

[man]file_get_contents/man

[veridicus]

Here's how to get all instances of one tag, or all top-level tags, from a string of HTML. Getting all nested tags can be tricky, but if you know you want everything one level in from the body tag, for example, this is an easy method.

		function get_tags($html, $tag = '')
		{
			if ($tag) {
				preg_match_all("/<(". $tag .")([^>]*)>(.*)<\/". $tag .">/is", $html, $matches1, PREG_SET_ORDER);
				preg_match_all("/<(". $tag .")([^>]*)\/(\s*)>/is", $html, $matches2, PREG_SET_ORDER);
			}
			else {
				preg_match_all("/<([\w]+)([^>]*)>(.*)<\/\1>/is", $html, $matches1, PREG_SET_ORDER);
				preg_match_all("/<([\w]+)([^>]*)\/(\s*)>/is", $html, $matches2, PREG_SET_ORDER);
			}
			return array_merge($matches1, $matches2);
		}