Retrieving innerHTML with cURL?

[NubcakeJR]

Hey all (sorry I know I'm a leecher, but I soon won't be. This is my first PHP project, but not my last ).

 

I need help with a little problem I am having. I am using cURL to navigate through some pages to validate a login and download some sources there. What I need to do is search through the tags of these sources to parse data within them. For instance

 

<table width="195" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="data_table">

 

I need to get that element so that I can get the values inside of the table.

 

The problem lies in the fact that i am using cURL to do this. since it is not in my document, I cannot say

 

document.getElementByTagName('table');

 

or whatever. I need to make document from the source that I get from the cURL. here is my current code -

 

  //This is all code which reads the file of the website and puts the information in $data
  //I am positive it works because when I echo $data, the information loads (in encoded form)

  $data = curl_exec ($ch);
  echo $data;
  $params = $data->getElementsByTagName('data_table');

 

Apparently I cannot use $data and then get the elements. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Mchl]

JavaScript will be of no use here

 

Perhaps try using DOM

[NubcakeJR]

alright, yeah that's how I did it (before you responded ), but now I have another problem. I don't know how to cycle through the rows of the tables looking for information. Any help on that?