Extract Data from HTML using PHP - php

Question

Here is what I am looking for :
I have a Link which displays some data on HTML format :
http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc...0&pageNumber=1
Data comes in below format :
<div class="searchResult regular">
Bird John
56 Leathwaite Road
London
SW11 6RS
020 7228 5576
I want my PHP page to execute above URL and Extract/Parse Data from the Result HTML page based on above Tags as
h2=Name
address=Address
telephoneNumber= Phone Number
and Display them in a Tabular Format.
I got this but it only shows the TEXT format of an HTML page but works to an extent:
<?
function get_content($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
ob_start();
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$string = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $string;
}
$content = get_content("http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc?Supplied=true&Name=william&Location=Crabtree&pageSize=50&pageNumber=1");
echo $content;
$content = get_content("http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc?Supplied=true&Name=william&Location=Crabtree&pageSize=50&pageNumber=2");
echo $content;
$content = get_content("http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc?Supplied=true&Name=william&Location=Crabtree&pageSize=50&pageNumber=3");
echo $content;
$content = get_content("http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc?Supplied=true&Name=william&Location=Crabtree&pageSize=50&pageNumber=4");
echo $content;
?>

Answer 1

You need to use a dom parser Simple HTML or similar
The read the file into an dom object and parse it using the appropriate selectors:
$html = new simple_html_dom("http://www.118.com/people-search.mvc...0&pageNumber=1");
foreach($html->find(.searchResult+regular) as $div) {
//parse div contents here to extract name and address etc.
}
$html->clear();
unset($html);
For more info see the Simple HTML documentation.