Convert HTML table to CSV via PHP - php

Question

I am trying to pull each td element from the html table below and import each element into its own cell in a CSV file.
Here are the two html tables:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#006699">
<tr align="center" class="tableRow1Font">
<td width="7%">WAITLIST</td>
<td width="5%">91630</td>
<td width="11%">
ACCY 2001
</td>
<td width="5%">10</td>
<td width="16%">Intro Financial Accounting</td>
<td width="6%">3.00</td>
<td width="8%"> Zou, Y</td>
<td width="8%"><A HREF="http://www.gwu.edu/~map/building.cfm?BLDG=DUQUES" target="_blank"
>DUQUES</a> 251</td>
<td width="13%">TR<br>09:35AM - 10:50AM</td>
<td width="14%">
01/13/14 - 04/28/14
</td>
<td width="7%">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#006699">
<tr align="center" class="tableRow2Font">
<td width="7%">WAITLIST</td>
<td width="5%">90003</td>
<td width="11%">
ACCY 2001
</td>
<td width="5%">11</td>
<td width="16%">Intro Financial Accounting</td>
<td width="6%">3.00</td>
<td width="8%"> Zou, Y</td>
<td width="8%"><A HREF="http://www.gwu.edu/~map/building.cfm?BLDG=DUQUES" target="_blank"
>DUQUES</a> 254</td>
<td width="13%">TR<br>11:10AM - 12:25PM</td>
<td width="14%">
1/13/14 - 04/28/14
</td>
<td width="7%">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I have written code that goes through the tables and pulls the td elements:
foreach($html->find('tr[align=center] td') as $e)
$str .= strip_tags($e->innertext) . ', ';
echo $str;
So how can I extract these elements into a CSV file? In Excel I want it to look like this with each td element in its own cell, starting a new row for each html table:
WAITLIST 91630 ACCY 2001 10 Intro Financial Accounting 3.00 Zou, Y DUQUES 251 TR
WAITLIST 90003 ACCY 2001 11 Intro Financial Accounting 3.00 Zou, Y DUQUES 251 TR

Answer 1

There is a library exist for this. Goto http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/. Download the zip file and in example you would find 17html.php try this code. I hope this will help.

Answer 2

CSV means Comma Separated Values. Thus, as you echo out the data (after running it through your function to strip the <td> tags), put commas in between each piece of data (cell), and a new line where you want the next line to start.
So to use your example above, it should look like this:
WAITLIST,91630,ACCY,2001,10,Intro Financial Accounting,3.00,Zou,Y,DUQUES,251,TR
WAITLIST,90003,ACCY,2001,11,Intro Financial Accounting,3.00,Zou,Y,DUQUES,2,
Keep in mind that when you echo this, you shouldn't have any other html tags or anything.