Parsing Html

[Colum]

Anyone have any ideas how to parse a html document.

I am trying to extract out specific information from the page.
Also, what do you do if the page is dynamic (e.g. a cgi generated page) how
do you find it??

Thanks
Colum.

[Pedro]

Colum wrote:

I am trying to extract out specific information from the page.
Also, what do you do if the page is dynamic (e.g. a cgi generated page) how
do you find it??

It depends *very*much* on what you're trying to extract.
I once had my motd come from

<?php
$x = `curl -s http://www.care2.com/`;
$t = strpos($x, 'DAILY QUACK UP');
$y = substr($x, $t, 300);
$t = strpos($y, '</td>');
$z = substr($y, 0, $t);
$z = str_replace('</b></font></a><br>', '', $z);
$z = str_replace('<BR>', '', $z);
echo $z;
?>

Just retested this ... still works :)

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[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 10/30/2003 07:46 PM, Colum wrote:

Anyone have any ideas how to parse a html document.

I am trying to extract out specific information from the page.
Also, what do you do if the page is dynamic (e.g. a cgi generated page) how
do you find it??

You may want to try these classes:

Class: HTMLparser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/244.html

Class: HTMLSax
http://www.phpclasses.org/htmlsax
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