PHP ques: Webpage retrieval and parsing

[news]

Hi again, I am pretty new to PHP (I use to be a Visual Basic 6 addict)

I want to do the following but I have been unable to find good info/ or
sample code on it; please help;

- retrieve a webpage using PHP from another site (the url have parameters
like (?date=january) in it if that makes a difference)

- using PHP code I want to Parse a table (perhaps using DomDocument
object?) I want to retrieve data from the table cell first by row and
then by column.
(retrieve the data to be store in data object)

- Then I want to use the data object to display the information retrieve in
webpage?
I am looking for sample codes, references or anything of that nature to help
me.
Thank you in advance. and please be as detail as you like.

Joe.

[ppalmieri]

Hi,

welcome to PHP! --

First take a look a CURL -
http://www.php.net/curl

That, used correctly will load the content of a url into a variable..
Then to parse outa table you will need to use some creative REGEX to
pull out the table/tr/td etc..

I have seen somewhwere, try searching google, someone wrote a class
similer to simpleXML that pulls an html table and loads it as a usuable
object.

Phil
news wrote:

Hi again, I am pretty new to PHP (I use to be a Visual Basic 6 addict)
I want to do the following but I have been unable to find good info/ or sample code on it; please help;

- retrieve a webpage using PHP from another site (the url have parameters like (?date=january) in it if that makes a difference)

- using PHP code I want to Parse a table (perhaps using DomDocument
object?) I want to retrieve data from the table cell first by row and then by column.
(retrieve the data to be store in data object)

- Then I want to use the data object to display the information retrieve in webpage?
I am looking for sample codes, references or anything of that nature to help me.
Thank you in advance. and please be as detail as you like.

Joe.