how to fetch a page with a parser [live demo]

bernard_hinault

i want to parse a site http://www.aktive-buergerschaft.de/buergerstiftungsfinder

Well therefore i have a true beginner-question regarding Array in order to work with the data: beginner question

The results should be stored in a MySQL-Database: well you see. i have a Curl-Approach: and i want to work with the parsed data: and in this case i want to give over the data into an array (if viewing the output in web browser, do view-source to see structured array).

Here the musings that led to the code:

Depending on num dimensions, we could do, foreach($result as $k => $v) {echo $k." ".$v}
to view and work with data (adding sub foreach loops accordingly; i.e. if $v is itself an array)

see the results: What do you think:

 $ch = curl_init("http://www.aktive-buergerschaft.de/buergerstiftungsfinder");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  

$buffer = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$result = explode(",", $buffer);
foreach($result as $k => $v) {echo $k." ".$v} 
if $v is itself an array) 
   // print_r($result);

look forward to hear from you!!

bernard the biker

NogDog

As I mentioned in your other thread, I'd probably start with the DOM extension in order to grab the content from the HTML text. When you try to just parse XML/HTML text with things like explode() or preg_match_all(), you leave yourself open to unexpected problems in cases where the page content's format changes subtly or there is text content that screws up your patterns (for a simple example, if occasional field content has a comma in it in your case).