How to parse HTML table using PHP? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Using phpQuery http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/ you could do

$file = LINK OR NAME OF YOUR FILE
phpQuery::newDocumentFile($file);
$data = pq('UNIQUE COLUMN ID OR CLASS AS YOU WOULD FOR CSS ex: .class #id')->html();

echo $data.

Answer 2

Maybe have a look at phpQuery: http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/?
I haven't used it myself so I'm not 100% sure it does what you want, but since it is a server-side implementation of jQuery to select from the DOM, using CSS selectors, I think it could be useful in your case.

Answer 3

This may be of use to you, there are even examples to get you started.

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

Answer 4

For tidy HTML codes, one of the parsing approach can be DOM. DOM divides your HTML code into objects and then allows you to call the desired object and its values/tag name etc.

The official documentation of PHP HTML DOM parsing is available at http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php

For finding the values of second column for the given table following DOM implementation can be done:

<?php
$data = file_get_contents('http://mytemporalbucket.s3.amazonaws.com/code.txt');

$dom = new domDocument;

@$dom->loadHTML($data);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table');

$rows = $tables->item(1)->getElementsByTagName('tr');

foreach ($rows as $row) {
        $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td');
        echo $cols[2];
}

?>

Reference: Customized the code provided at How to parse this table and extract data from it? to match this question's demand.