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Hi, I was reviewing a php web scraping write up which is found at http://imbuzu.wordpress.com/tag/web-scraping and discovered there is a syntax error in the author's code: THE ERROR IS ON THIS LINE (FULL SET OF CODE CAN BE FOUND AT AUTHOR'S SITE - link above) for ($i = 0; $i getElementsByTagName('td'); (I'm posting below): Note - i can't understand the logic of the 'for' loop, getElementsByTagName function to fix the problem so asking for help to make this work as the author suggested. <?php error_reporting(E_ERROR); $url = "http://www.imdb.com/chart/"; $curl = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $document = curl_exec($curl); //echo $document; $dom_rep = new DOMDocument; $dom_rep->loadHTML($document); $all_trs = $dom_rep->getElementsByTagName('tr'); $trs_we_want = array(); foreach ($all_trs as $tr) { $class_name = $tr->getAttribute('class'); if (preg_match("/chart_(even|odd)_row/", $class_name)) { $trs_we_want[] = $tr; } } for ($i = 0; $i getElementsByTagName('td'); $the_tds_arr = array(); foreach ($the_tds as $td) { $the_tds_arr[] = $td; } $movie_title = $the_tds_arr[2]->nodeValue; $rank = $the_tds_arr[0]->nodeValue; $weekend = $the_tds_arr[3]->nodeValue; $gross = $the_tds_arr[4]->nodeValue; $weeks = $the_tds_arr[5]->nodeValue; echo "<div>"; echo "<h2>$movie_title</h2>"; echo "Rank: $rank<br />"; echo "Weekend: $weekend<br />"; echo "Gross: $gross<br />"; echo "Weeks: $weeks<br />"; echo "</div>"; } ?>