HTML Table parsing using DOM - php

Question

I Have a HTML Table
My Parsing Code is
$src = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$src->formatOutput = true;
$src->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
#$src->loadHTML($result);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($src);
$data=$xpath->query('//td[ contains (#class, "bodytext1") ]');
foreach($data as $datas)
{
echo $datas->nodeValue."<br />";
}
$values=$xpath->query('//tr[ contains (#bgcolor, "f3fafe") ]');
foreach($values as $value)
{
echo $value->nodeValue."<br />";
}
$values1=$xpath->query('//tr[ contains (#bgcolor, "def0fa") ]');
foreach($values1 as $value1)
{
echo $value1->nodeValue."<br />";
}
to be printed, and I want them to be repeated along with other lines as shown above in output i need.
and I want this whole thing in a array so that i can insert it in the database
Can anyone please guide me or give me any hint so that I can do this

Answer 1

This should get you started.
$src = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$src->formatOutput = true;
$src->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$src->loadHTML($result);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($src);
// get header data
$data=$xpath->query('//table[1]//td');
$htno = trim(explode(":",$data->item(0)->nodeValue)[1]);
$name = trim(explode(":",$data->item(1)->nodeValue)[1]);
$fatherName=trim(explode(":",$data->item(2)->nodeValue)[1]);
// rows from 2nd table
$values1=$xpath->query('//table[2]//tr');
$header = true; // flag to track whether we've read the header row.
foreach($values1 as $value1)
{
if (!$header) {
$rowdata = str_replace("\r\n"," ",$value1->nodeValue);
echo $htno," ",$name," ",$fatherName," ",$rowdata,"\n";
}
$header = false;
}
Note:
The $header flag is a quick fix. A better Xpath query might eliminate the need for it.
the str_replace near the bottom is ugly but expedient. You might want to play with the xpath query to see if you can improve it.
Output is not formatted for HTML - lines are delimited by \n
I got a warning on one line where it contained &, so I changed it to AND. You might have to preprocess your tables to eliminate those somehow.

Answer 2

you could use third party's dll,such as "Html Agility Pack". a tool which is professional to convert html into xml.