Parse another page

stephen

What would be the process to parse another webpage on my server. ex: I have an HTML page that is uploaded into a directory. I want to now take that page, select specific content and write that to my database.

Is there any articles on this topic

Can anybody give me some sample code on what this should look like.

mattee

Here's a snip that might give you some direction. It's for getting the body of a web page.

I've seen other code for grabbing specific parts of an html page but I suggest you use templates in some way especially if the web pages are your own and you can edit them.

If you use phplib's template class, you can surround a part of a page with

<html code etc>...

and use the template object to grab just this piece of html.

Otherwise, you'll have to find some grabbing code. As I say, I've seen this but can't think of where to find any offhand.

$contents = $CONTENTS_OF_WEB_PAGE;
preg_match('/<\sbody.?>(.)<\s\/body\s*>/si', $contents, $matches);
$body = $matches[1];

stephen

I would use templates for this but the pages I am looking to grab are created in VB. They are my files, but another program builds them so I don't have access to the design.

Anon

Stephen,

Did yu ever figure out how to parse the html file ? as I need to do something similar, perhaps you can share you knowledge !

Here is what I need to do:

open/read a html file from a remote server and parse some data. Here is the string I need to find/read:

  <td>
    <p align="center">Order
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">89
    </p>
  </td>

and then I need to extract whatever numerical characters are present.
And I need to do this twice within the same file, once for "Order" and then for "TroubleTicket".

  <td>
    <p align="center">Order
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">89
    </p>
  </td>

</center>
<td>
<p align="center">55%
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<center>

<tr>
  <td>
    <p align="center">12/5/2000
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">TroubleTicket
    </p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p align="center">17
    </p>
  </td>

Realy appreciate any help,
Pedro