HTML table to php array

Question

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So i am going with the DOM approach. Here is what I have so far:

Answer 1

I've updated your edit to fix it.

function tdrows($elements)
{
    $str = "";
    foreach ($elements as $element) {
        $str .= $element->nodeValue . ", ";
    }

    return $str;
}

function getdata()
{
    $contents = "
Row 1 Column 1
Row 1 Column 2
Row 2 Column 1
Row 2 Column 2
";
    $DOM = new DOMDocument;
    $DOM->loadHTML($contents);

    $items = $DOM->getElementsByTagName('tr');

    foreach ($items as $node) {
        echo tdrows($node->childNodes) . "
";
    }
}

getdata();