selecting certain text to post to database

[Justafriend]

Ok I am just looking at where to start this  what I am trying to do is  take from text below always formatted same way  and pull the date  1st place 1st place email 2nd place 2nd place email 3rd place 3rd place email sometimes there is 2 of them  and then pull each of the players points and put them all into tables in mysql 

in MySQL table I will have 3 tables

1st one is

email list

headings

id, playername,email

2nd one is

points

headings

playername points date

and 3rd one

Tourneyofchampions

headings

playername email(which if blank will pull from email table, if filled will update email table) date

 

below is an example of the input what im looking for is a place to start if you have any clarifications I will be happy to answer them

 

Nojoks's Tourney Bracket Tool Version 1.2.1.84
Tournament:  DeepBlueSea
Date:  04/20/2013
Day:  Saturday
Scheduled Start:  1:00
Actual Start:  4:00:02 PM
Closed:  4:11:43 PM
Host:  justme67 (UBG_shorty)
Number of Players:  19

 

1st place:  DESERTWARRIOR
1st place email:  email@address.com
2nd place:  poetree
2nd place email:  email@address.com
3rd place:  TM7_crazykarma
3rd place email:   email@address.com

 

START POINTS
DBS_Arielle 1
heli_guy2 1
keithsgame 1
MiaBela 1
PAL_USA_14KT 1
pirat3 1
TM7_sundgo 1
UBG_Angel_D_8 1
ziko_14 1
_BOMBER_ 3
_Antoinette_ 4
mawdryn65 4
olddanny1 4
The_Romano 4
ADG_Ronycezar 7
onaroll 7
TM7_crazykarma 19
poetree 32
DESERTWARRIOR 45
UBG_shorty 10
STOP POINTS

PLAYER STATISTICS (can be imported into Excel):
Name, Wins, Losses, Byes, Boots, Booted, DQed
MiaBela, 0, 1, 0, 0, Y, N
UBG_Angel_D_8, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
TM7_crazykarma, 2, 1, 1, 0, N, N
mawdryn65, 1, 1, 0, 0, N, N
DESERTWARRIOR, 5, 0, 0, 0, N, N
pirat3, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
_Antoinette_, 1, 1, 0, 0, N, N
heli_guy2, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
TM7_sundgo, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
olddanny1, 1, 1, 0, 0, N, N
ADG_Ronycezar, 2, 1, 0, 0, N, N
ziko_14, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
PAL_USA_14KT, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
onaroll, 2, 1, 0, 0, N, N
The_Romano, 1, 1, 0, 0, N, N
DBS_Arielle, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
keithsgame, 0, 1, 0, 0, N, N
poetree, 3, 1, 1, 0, N, N
_BOMBER_, 0, 1, 1, 0, N, N

 

 

[lemmin]

The place to start would be preg_match(). For example, do parse out the date, you could use this expression:

preg_match('/Date:\s+(\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4})/', $input, $matches);
$date = $matches[1];

[Justafriend]

just to break it down  the preg_match('/date:\s+, automatically looks at the file and looks for  date: and grabs the info after it the rest is just to verify the format

[lemmin]

Right, "Date:" is a literal match, "\s+" looks for one or more whitespace characters, and \d{2} matches two digit characters (the slashes are literal also).

[Justafriend]

so

preg_match('/1st Place:\s+(*)/', would return 

DESERTWARRIOR

using above entry  I just want to make sure im on the right track I really do appreciate this

[lemmin]

Right. The * won't match new line characters by default, so you should get everything on that line.

 

Here is a good reference:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

[Justafriend]

ok so i came up with this code to show

04/20/2013

1:00

DESERTWARRIOR

 email@address.com
poetree
email@address.com
TM7_crazykarma
email@address.com

 this is the code NOT TESTED YET

<?php
$date=preg_match('/Date:\s+(\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4})/');
$time=preg_match('/Scheduled Start:\s+(*)');
$1stplace=preg_match('/1st place:\s+(*)');
$1stplaceemail=preg_match('/1st place email:\s+(*)');
$2ndplace=preg_match('/2nd place:\s+(*)');
$2ndplaceemail=preg_match('/2nd place email:\s+(*)');
$3rdplace=preg_match('/3rd place:\s+(*)');
$3rdplaceemail=preg_match('/3rd place email:\s+(*)');
print ($date);
print ($time)
print ($1stplace);
print ($1stplaceemail);
print ($2ndplace);
print($2ndplaceemail);
print ($3rdplace);
print ($3rdplaceemail)
?>

now 3 questions

1 how do i distiguish if there is 2 sets of 3rd places so if top section looks like this

1st place:  DESERTWARRIOR
1st place email:  email@address.com
2nd place:  poetree
2nd place email:  email@address.com
1st place:  DESERTWARRIOR
1st place email:  email@address.com
2nd place:  poetree
2nd place email:  email@address.com
3rd place:  TM7_crazykarma
3rd place email:   email@address.com

1st place:  DESERTWARRIOR
1st place email:  email@address.com
2nd place:  poetree
2nd place email:  email@address.com
3rd place:  UBG_Shorty
3rd place email:   email@address.com

 

2nd question is if using a form to put it into it

<input type="text" name="playername"> what do i use in place of player name seeing it is multiple things in it

 

and finally is the code above basically right on what i am trying to do

thank you for all your help