Turn Tables into an Array

[uancletus]

I am looking to parse a table efficiently into an array with PHP.

I need the array to have this data:

$example[$channel_id]['users'] // array of users for that channel, false if empty
$example[$channel_id]['name'] // name of channel
$example[$channel_id]['locked'] // boolean of whether or not it is locked

 

I figure it might be easy to do by exploding by \n and then just run through each part of the array and figure out where it would go with strpos.

 

The problem is, I do not know how I would go about doing it through an unknown amount of nesting. Can anyone help?

 

Here is the exact structure, the same structure is the same, just sometimes more channels or more users, etc.:

<table width="95%" border="0">
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="servericon.png" align="absmiddle"></img><strong>ROOT CHANNEL</strong></div><table width="95%" border="0" align="right">
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="user.png" align="absmiddle"></img>USER1</div></td></tr>
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="lockedchannel.png" align="absmiddle"></img><strong>LOCKED CHANNEL</strong></div><table width="95%" border="0" align="right">
</table></td></tr>
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="openchannel.png" align="absmiddle"></img><strong>CHANNEL 1</strong></div><table width="95%" border="0" align="right">
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="user.png" align="absmiddle"></img>USER2</div></td></tr>
</table></td></tr>
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="channel.png" align="absmiddle"></img><strong>CHANNEL 2</strong></div><table width="95%" border="0" align="right">
</table></td></tr>
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="openchannel.png" align="absmiddle"></img><strong>CHANNEL 3</strong></div><table width="95%" border="0" align="right">
<tr><td><div style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis"><img src="channel.png" align="absmiddle"></img><strong>NESTED CHANNEL 1</strong></div><table width="95%" border="0" align="right">
</table></td></tr>
</table></td></tr>
</table>
</table>

[uancletus]

Is it even possible to do this?

[Adam]

Rather than trying to manually explode and substr/strpos/strstr or anything like that, you'd probably have much better luck using the DOM extension.

[uancletus]

I'm not quite sure how to use the DOM() extension, do you have any decent examples?