parsing html document

[alohatofu]

I have a sample page located at http://projectkamalii.org/sampledata.htm

 

 

could someone please guide me on how to extract that data out? I'm thinking of using snoopy to assign each field a variable but don't know where to start.

 

could someone give me some guidance please?

 

I'm thinking of fetching the page with php and then output each field a variable say

 

the first field is Notice_ID would output 0068996

[dustinnoe]

I think I would start with <a href="http://us2.php.net/preg_match">preg_match()</a> using the "matches" parameter

[alohatofu]

how would you do it? the data is in a table.

 

thanks

[dustinnoe]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,127902.0.html

 

Here are the resources you will need.  It's worth learning this on your own as opposed to someone writing the code for you.  I struggled through it and I'm glad I did.

[alohatofu]

thanks!. my concern is how do I initiate it. I will learn preg_match but please guide me on how to start with that html file.

[corbin]

$htmlfile = implode("\r\n", file(path or url to html file....));

 

That would put the file contents in $htmlfile

[alohatofu]

Ok, I've got it to where it will display all the text only.

<?php

      include("include/classes/Snoopy.class.php");
      $snoopy = new Snoopy;
      if($snoopy->fetchtext("http://xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx/events/noticedetails.php?noticeID=0069040")){

      // print the texts of the website:
      print "<pre>".htmlspecialchars($snoopy->results)."</pre>\n";
      }
      else {
      print "Snoopy: error while fetching document: ".$snoopy->error."\n";
      } 
     
?>

 

the output of that code is something like this

 

this is the first line

this is the 2nd line of the paragraph

a thirdline is here

 

 

My question is can someone please guide me on how to not display the text but assign variables to to the text above? say I want  $var1 = first line

 

thanks

 

 

 

[alohatofu]

Ok, let's just say that I don't dispaly the result but store them

      $result = ($snoopy->results);

 

 

what's the next step?

 

let's say that I want to get the word "first" in $result