How to extract data from web page?

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    Can someone tell me how to extract a portion of HTML codes from an existing web page? I tried to extract a table from a downloaded web page but cant get no luck:


     
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  2. bibel

    bibel Active Member

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    You can either professionally use a regular expression, or an old fashion strpos(), substr() combination. It's called grabbing.
     
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  3. designcode

    designcode Well-Known Member

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    As bibel says either use REGEX, or try to get desired portion via parsing the output.
     
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  4. krakjoe

    krakjoe Well-Known Member

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<?
preg_match('~<div id="post_message_3018874">(.*?[^<])<br />~i', file_get_contents('http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=319634'), $yourpost );
echo $yourpost[1];
    PHP:
    Be more specific .......
     
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  5. sundaybrew

    sundaybrew Numerati

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    Dam dude,....I think you know everything about php....

    You impress me with every post :)
     
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