Hi All,
I am using the PHP Simple HTML DOM parser to connect to a financials website, parse out a companies financial information (Income statement in this case) and then insert the scrapped data into a mysql database that I can then later use to run automated calculations.
Here is the code I have so far:
<?php
include_once 'simple_html_dom.php';
//Connect to financial Website and Create DOM from URL
$income_statement = file_get_html('http://www.WEBSITE.com/finance?etc..etc...etc...etc...');
//PULL FINANCIAL DATA
foreach($income_statement->find('td[class]' ) as $lines=>$data) {
echo $data->plaintext . "<br/>";
}
// clean up memory
$html->clear();
unset($html);
?>
So far I am able to get output that looks like this:
Revenue
336.57
331.52
324.32
319.29
320.40
Other Revenue, Total
-
-
-
-
-
Total Revenue
336.57
331.52
324.32
319.29
320.40
etc.............................
But being a newb I do not understand how I can break each $ value and each - into their own variables and then insert them to their corresponding mysql table fields. During the database insert I would like to ignore field headings from insertion (i.e Revenue, Total Revenue, etc....
Any help would be absolutely amazing, as I have been reading, scripting and searching for information like crazy, but just can't seem to figure it out.
