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Hi to all! My name is David and I just turned 70 years of age. I started programming in 1972 on a Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer with punched paper tape and an IBM Selectric typerighter as I/O devices. I was a Senior Software Engineer for the 3M Company for 25 years (now retired). I also have been a firefighter for 35 years. http://www.extraalarm.org I have been a PHP for many years. David eatc7402

I'm using Win 8, php 5.3.13 on a new pc for the first time. The following simple if test should return EITHER of the choices (or so I do beleive) But when I run it on my new Windiows 8 PC for the first time it does neither. Strange! The line echo "$info_test_file<br><br>" ; does return a correct result but the if test doesn't seem to. ================================ <?php echo "test<br><br>" ; $info_test_file ="../php/info_test.txt" ; echo "$info_test_file<br><br>" ; if (file_exists($info_test_file)) { echo "<font color=\"#FFFFFF\">File test DOES exist!</font><br />" ; $we_are_local = "1" ; } else { echo "<font color=\"#FFFFFF\">File test DOES NOT exist!</font><br />" ; } ?> ========================= eatc7402

Well I found a php function to strip out and remove whitespace and special character, and then using strlen and strreplaece from the then know positions seems to br getting me closer to my desired outcome. The regular expression function given in a reply DID not do what I desired which was a TEXT SUBSTITUION. eact7402

I have a number of records of the html sections of a series of Google Earth placemarks that I managed to extract from the raw kml file. The purpose of the exersize was to then use the simplehtmldom.php api to extract the DATA from the raw html code. Some of the process is going well... and some is NOT. I have found that if I modify the raw html code by entering ID attributes into the html code the simplehtmldom api has an easy time identifying the desired data, and the data can be far 'cleaner' by entering an id attribute as 'close' to the data as possible. But doing a php text search and replace often requires finding a 'unique' identifyable portion of the html code and THEN placing the 'id' attribute in a nearby html tag because the desired data is nested inside a non-unique tag. As in I can identify a SPECIFIC <td> tag section where the data i desire is located but the data is nested inside a <font> tag inside the <td> cluster. Hence my problem... If I do a search in the following code... <td><b><font size="+2" color="#FF0000">Neighborhood:</font> <font size="+2" color="#0000FF">City of Sidney</font></b></td> I can locate the 'Neighborhood:' string because it is unique in the whole html code. Then by some charcter counting I am desiring to put my 'id' attribute in the NEXT font tag because it surrounds the desired data the 'City of Sidney'... as in... <td><b><font size="+2" color="#FF0000">Neighborhood:</font> <font id="neighborhood" size="+2" color="#0000FF">City of Sidney</font></b></td> With this modification the desired data is easily found and cleanly produced. But the html code while all operating correctly in a web page is not all identicle from a 'whitespace' point of view AND thus my problem. If I search the following code... <td> <b><font size="+2" color="#FF0000">Neighboorhood:</font> <font size="+2" color="#0000FF">Greenacre</font></b> </td> While being identical as far as html is concerned if I search this code for the 'Neighboorhood:' identifier I find it... but then attempting to place the id tag into the NEXT font tag is being problematic. What i seem to need is a function that once the 'Neighboorhood:' string position is identied and noted in the whole of the html code, to FIND and modify the NEXT occurance of a font tag no matter what whitespace (or special charachters) may be occuring. Any suggestions?? eatc7402

I altered my code and when I called the function WITHOUT a file path like this... $html = file_get_html("table_data.txt"); it no longer complains about any missing arg. So... what is the required arg if I want to fully specify the path to the file?? eatc7402

Ahhh yes.. an EQUAL sign... that fixed that error.. but NOW I get this... Warning: file_get_contents(C:\eaahmpg\eatc7402\www\stations\Sydney\code able_data.txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\eaahmpg\eatc7402\www\php\simplehtmldom\simple_html_dom.php on line 39 An argument? What does it need here.. if I give it an empty argument is complains also. $html = file_get_html("C:\eaahmpg\eatc7402\www\stations\Sydney\code\table_data.txt", ""); eatc7402

I am a new simplehtmldom user. It is working and the php api loads, and I can parse when I lod data from a string. But if I attemp yo load data from a file like this... $html->file_get_html("C:\eaahmpg\eatc7402\www\stations\Sydney\code\table_data.txt"); I receive the following error. Fatal error: Call to undefined method simple_html_dom::file_get_html() in... Hmmm. The function IS defined in the api. I'm not sure where I'M going wrong here. eac7402