Reading a particular table from html

[Anon]

I would like to read an table from html file

I do $fcontents = file ('http://hpnow.corp.hp.com/index.htm');

and

kan read a line like this.

echo $fcontents[578]."<br>";

but i woul like to find table start where table name="123"

help.

[Anon]

You'll need to do some parsing on your file to get what you want.

If your file will always have a string formatted like this "<table name=123" then this code should work:

// Get the starting position of the table
$start = strpos($fcontents, "<table name=123");

// Get the ending position of the table
$end = strpos($fcontents, "</table>", $start) + 8;

// Calculate the length of our section
$len = $end - $start;

// Pull our section
$table = substr($fcontents, $start, $len);

That should get you what you want as long as the html is well formed and the strings that you are looking for are correct.