What is the fastest way to convert html table to php array?

Question

are there build in functions in latest versions of php specially designed to aid in this task ?

Answer 1

String replace and explode would work if the HTML code is clean and always the same, as soon as you have new attributes it will brake. So only dependable solution would be using regular expressions or XML/HTML parser. Check http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php