Converting HTML Table to a CSV automatically using PHP?

Answer 1

You can do this with arrays and regular expressions... See below

$csv = array();
preg_match('/| [^>]*>)(.*?)<\/table( |>)/is',$table,$b);
$table = $b[2];
preg_match_all('/| [^>]*>)(.*?)<\/tr( |>)/is',$table,$b);
$rows = $b[2];
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    //cycle through each row
    if(preg_match('/| [^>]*>)(.*?)<\/th( |>)/is',$row)) {
        //match for table headers
        preg_match_all('/| [^>]*>)(.*?)<\/th( |>)/is',$row,$b);
        $csv[] = strip_tags(implode(',',$b[2]));
    } elseif(preg_match('/| [^>]*>)(.*?)<\/td( |>)/is',$row)) {
        //match for table cells
        preg_match_all('/| [^>]*>)(.*?)<\/td( |>)/is',$row,$b);
        $csv[] = strip_tags(implode(',',$b[2]));
    }
}
$csv = implode("\n", $csv);
var_dump($csv);

Then you can use file_put_contents() to write the csv string to file..