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

If you want to convert the html-description of a table, here's how I would do it:

• remove all closing tags () ( http://php.net/manual/de/function.str-replace.php)
• split string at opening tags (<...>) using a regular expression ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.split.php)

You have to work out the details on your own, since I do not know if you want to handle different lines as subarrays or you want to merge all lines into one big array or something else.