Help: simple_html_dom.php select first table row only

[aussie]

Gidday all,

 

My Utimate goal is to parse the data on the first row in first table and first row in second table.

from here: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60901/IDQ60901.94580.shtml

 

Presently I can only parse data in the last row in the last table.

I got to this point about 2 days ago, I am unable to find any info as to what I need to do to achieve what I want.

some of the info I've found I don't understand.

 

Need newbie help.

 

What do I need to add/change to parse the data in  at least the first table row?

 

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
include_once('htmldom/simple_html_dom.php');
$url = 'http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60901/IDQ60901.94580.shtml';


// Create DOM from URL
$html = file_get_html($url);

foreach($html->find('table tr') as $weather) {
    if($weather->find('th')) {continue;} //apparently this needs to be added because there is a bug in simple_html_dom.php
    if(!$weather->find('td ', 0)) {continue;}
    
    $datetime = $weather->find('td', 0)->plaintext;
    $currentTemp = $weather->find('td', 1)->plaintext;

}

print_r('updated:' . '&nbsp' .$datetime);
print_r ('<br>');
print_r('CurrentTmp:' . '&nbsp' .$currentTemp);
print_r ('<br>');
?>

[Muddy_Funster]

foreach($html->find('table tr') as $weather) {
    if($weather->find('th')) {continue;} //apparently this needs to be added because there is a bug in simple_html_dom.php
    if(!$weather->find('td ', 0)) {continue;}
    
    $datetime = $weather->find('td', 0)->plaintext;
    $currentTemp = $weather->find('td', 1)->plaintext;

}

 

What you are doing here is over writing the value of $datetime and $currentTemp for every instance of <tr> on the source page.  Only after it has finished looking up all the <tr>'s are you then using the final <tr>'s information.

 

how does it work if you do this:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
include_once('htmldom/simple_html_dom.php');
$url = 'http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60901/IDQ60901.94580.shtml';


// Create DOM from URL
$html = file_get_html($url);
for ($i=0; $i <2; $i++){
foreach($html->find('table tr') as $weather) {
    if($weather->find('th')) {continue;} //apparently this needs to be added because there is a bug in simple_html_dom.php
    if(!$weather->find('td ', 0)) {continue;}
    
    $datetime = $weather->find('td', 0)->plaintext;
    $currentTemp = $weather->find('td', 1)->plaintext;

print_r('updated:' . '&nbsp' .$datetime);
print_r ('<br>');
print_r('CurrentTmp:' . '&nbsp' .$currentTemp);
print_r ('<br>');
}
}
?>

[aussie]

Thanks for your answer

for ($i=0; $i <2; $i++){

I figured out I had to do something like this. This almost gave me what I was after.

 

But too many results,

 

I figured out if I put

 break;

I was able to just get the result I wanted.

 

Thanks so much