parse html page

[nikko50]

Hello friends🙂
How can I import a html page with my php script?? I have a simple html page that actually just generates a simple table of values. I just want to strip the values to insert in to a database. How do I import the html page to my php script to parse it?? Any help would be great.
Tracy

[bradgrafelman]

If there's some sort of pattern in the HTML code (there usually is), you can use something like [man]preg_match_all/man to retrieve all of the values into an array, and then it's simply a matter of looping through the array and inserting them into your database.

If you want help with this, can you post a sample of what the HTML looks like, and explain what you want to extract from it?

[nikko50]

How do I import an HTML page into my php script so I can parse it?

[etully]

Check php.net for fopen() and curl. They have sample scripts there. Brings the HTML right into a variable.

[bradgrafelman]

Or simply [man]file_get_contents/man.