PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser and database insertion

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Hi All,

 

I am using the PHP Simple HTML DOM parser to connect to a financials website, parse out a companies financial information (Income statement in this case) and then insert the scrapped data into a mysql database that I can then later use to run automated calculations.

 

Here is the code I have so far:

 

<?php
include_once 'simple_html_dom.php';

//Connect to financial Website and Create DOM from URL
$income_statement = file_get_html('http://www.WEBSITE.com/finance?etc..etc...etc...etc...');

//PULL FINANCIAL DATA
foreach($income_statement->find('td[class]' ) as $lines=>$data) {

echo $data->plaintext . "<br/>";

}

// clean up memory
    $html->clear();
    unset($html);
?>

 

 

So far I am able to get output that looks like this:

 

Revenue
336.57
331.52
324.32
319.29
320.40
Other Revenue, Total
-
-
-
-
-
Total Revenue
336.57
331.52
324.32
319.29
320.40
etc.............................

 

But being a newb I do not understand how I can break each $ value and each - into their own variables and then insert them to their corresponding mysql table fields. During the database insert I would like to ignore field headings from insertion (i.e Revenue, Total Revenue, etc....

 

Any help would be absolutely amazing, as I have been reading, scripting and searching for information like crazy, but just can't seem to figure it out.