Back in the day (a few years ago), if I needed to parse content from an HTML source, I’d write a script that would search for tokens / identifiers in the code to mark the start and end points and then use string manipulation functions to extract what I’d need. Now, a much easier way is to use Simple PHP DOM Parser which lets you select elements jQuery style and process them easily in PHP. Here’s an example from their website:
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// Create DOM from URL
$html = file_get_html(‘http://slashdot.org/’);
// Find all article blocks
foreach($html->find(‘div.article’) as $article) {
$item[‘title’] = $article->find(‘div.title’, 0)->plaintext;
$item[‘intro’] = $article->find(‘div.intro’, 0)->plaintext;
$item[‘details’] = $article->find(‘div.details’, 0)->plaintext;
$articles[] = $item;
}
print_r($articles);
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