Read Data from HTML Table with PHP

[lihman]

I need to use PHP to read from an HTML table and assign specific columns/cells into arrays.

 

Example of Table:

<table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="1">
  <tr>
    <td class="box_header" width="50" align="center">Rank</td>
    <td class="box_header" width="150" align="center">Username</td>
    <td class="box_header" width="100" align="center">Gold</td>
    <td class="box_header" width="100" align="center">Army Size</td>
    <td class="box_header" width="75" align="center">Level</td>
    <td class="box_header" width="75" align="center">Race</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="box_content" colspan="6" align="center">Currently viewing page 851 of 4086</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="box_content" colspan="3">
      <a href="userlist.dt?session=&mode=attack&page=850">Previous</a>
    </td>
    <td class="box_content" colspan="3" align="right">
      <a href="userlist.dt?session=&mode=attack&page=852">Next</a>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">42,501</td>
    <td class="box_content"><a href="/viewprofile.dt?session=&id=1045135">Helyanwe</a></td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">413,694,847</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">109,695</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">55</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center"><img src="/images/raceicons/2.gif" alt="Undead"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">42,502</td>
    <td class="box_content"><a href="/viewprofile.dt?session=&id=1171592">white_knight2000</a></td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">233,555,927</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">30,356</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">55</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center"><img src="/images/raceicons/3.gif" alt="Goblins"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">42,503</td>
    <td class="box_content"><a href="/viewprofile.dt?session=&id=1143368">BreKo2</a></td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">19,753,118</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">62,698</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center">55</td>
    <td class="box_content" align="center"><img src="/images/raceicons/1.gif" alt="Humans"></td>
  </tr>

 

The thing is that the content in the cells keeps changing so I need to be able to use it as variables/arrays.

 

for example: $row4[2] can display 413,694,847. (I went 4 rows down and 3 columns to the right)

 

How can I make this work?

[waynewex]

Hi. I'm a little confused about what you're wanting to achieve. Does another site implement this that you can link us to? Otherwise you're going to have to explain it a little more clearly.

[lihman]

Ok, I'll make it a bit more clear.

 

IF there's a table like this:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Age</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lihman</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr>
<td>Waynewex</td>
<td>25</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

I need a php script that can read that and somehow assign variables to "Lihman" and "25". However, I cannot make any changes to the table. So I was thinking maybe $name[0] would equal "Lihman" and $name[1] would equal "Waynewex".

 

I am using this with php/cURL and the table will keep changing so I can't just make it so that $name[0] will always equal "Lihman" which is why i need the script to read from the table.

 

 

 

 

[waynewex]

Then what you need to read into/get help with is regular expressions. There's a regular expression help sub-forum on this forum.

[lihman]

Can a mod please move this topic into that sub-forum?

 

I'll be even more specific to what I need if that makes changes to the script:

 

<table>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Age</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="1025.html">Lihman</a></td>
<td>50</td>
</tr>
<td><a href="5245.html">Waynewex</a></td>
<td>25</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

 

I then need to make a php/cURL script that will change the $url to lihman.html or waynewex.html depending on the age.

 

Example (not a real script):

 

if {

  $age > 35;

  $url = "http://localhost/" . [WHATEVER COMES BETWEEN href=""];

}

 

Therefore, $url would equal http://localhost/1025.html.

[lihman]

Can someone please move this to regex?