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PHP ques: Webpage retrieval and parsing
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| Hi again, I am pretty new to PHP (I use to be a Visual Basic 6 addict)
I want to do the following but I have been unable to find good info/ or
sample code on it; please help;
- retrieve a webpage using PHP from another site (the url have parameters
like (?date=january) in it if that makes a difference)
- using PHP code I want to Parse a table (perhaps using DomDocument
object?) I want to retrieve data from the table cell first by row and
then by column.
(retrieve the data to be store in data object)
- Then I want to use the data object to display the information retrieve in
webpage?
I am looking for sample codes, references or anything of that nature to help
me.
Thank you in advance. and please be as detail as you like.
Joe.
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| ppalmieri@gmail.com 2005-01-16, 3:57 am |
| Hi,
welcome to PHP! --
First take a look a CURL -
http://www.php.net/curl
That, used correctly will load the content of a url into a variable..
Then to parse outa table you will need to use some creative REGEX to
pull out the table/tr/td etc..
I have seen somewhwere, try searching google, someone wrote a class
similer to simpleXML that pulls an html table and loads it as a usuable
object.
Phil
news wrote:
> Hi again, I am pretty new to PHP (I use to be a Visual Basic 6
addict)
>
> I want to do the following but I have been unable to find good info/
or
> sample code on it; please help;
>
> - retrieve a webpage using PHP from another site (the url have
parameters
> like (?date=january) in it if that makes a difference)
>
> - using PHP code I want to Parse a table (perhaps using DomDocument
> object?) I want to retrieve data from the table cell first by row
and
> then by column.
> (retrieve the data to be store in data object)
>
> - Then I want to use the data object to display the information
retrieve in
> webpage?
>
>
> I am looking for sample codes, references or anything of that nature
to help
> me.
> Thank you in advance. and please be as detail as you like.
>
> Joe.
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