extract specific data from webpage using php - php

Question

I wants to create a php script for alerts from my work website when new notice is published, so following the page url
http://www.mahapwd.com/nit/ueviewnotice.asp?noticeid=1767
from this page i want a variable for Date & Time of Meeting (Date and time seperately two variables)
Place of Meeting and Published On
please help me to create a perfect php script.
I tried to create following script but it gives to many errors
<?php
$url1 = "http://www.mahapwd.com/nit/ueIndex.asp?district=12";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
preg_match("/href=(.*)\", $data, $urldata);
$url2 = "http://www.mahapwd.com/nit/$urldata[1];
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data2 = curl_exec($ch);
preg_match("/Published On:</b>(.*)<\/font>", $data, $pubDt);
$PubDate = $pubDt[1];
preg_match("/Time of Meeting:</b>(.*)&nbsp", $data, $MtDt);
$MeetDate = $MtDt[1];
preg_match("/Time of Meeting:</b>$MtDt[1]&nbsp(.*)</font>", $data, $MtTime);
$MeetTime = $MtTime[1];
preg_match("/Place of Meeting:</b>(.*)<\/font>", $data, $pubDt);
$PubDate = $pubDt[1];
?>

Answer 1

Hello i have done simple code for you. You can download simple_html_dom.php from http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
require_once "simple_html_dom.php";
$url='http://www.mahapwd.com/nit/ueviewnotice.asp?noticeid=1767';
//parse url
for ($i=0;$i<1;$i++) {
$html1 = file_get_html($url);
if(!$html1){ echo "no content"; }
else {
//here is parsed html
$string1 = $html1;
//now you need to find table
$element1=$html1->find('table');
//here is a table you need
$input=$element1[2];
//now you can select row from here
foreach($input->find('td') as $element) {
//in here you can find name than save it to database than check it
}
}
}